Quotes About Vulnerability

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Holding on to the weak is called strength.

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

Humility takes a supply of supernatural strength that comes only to those strong enough to admit weakness

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

Strength is an empty shell.

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.