Fear Of Vulnerability Quotes

#1. Here's the bottom line: If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way - especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#2. Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

Brene Brown

#3. And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#4. You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

Suzanne Letourneau

#5. It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

Martina Boone

#6. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#7. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

Janet Fitch

#8. We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#9. Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It's the bravest act of all.

Toni Sorenson

#10. This witch's brew of vulnerability and fear and hope makes dawn the time when we can best hear whatever it is our ghosts are trying to tell us. But

Barbara Nickless

#11. I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

Teri Hatcher

#12. I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

John Rzeznik

#13. Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. It's the closest I've ever felt to dying.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#14. We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.

David Abram

#15. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Brene Brown

#16. There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

Tahir Shah

#17. Write about fear. Write about pain. Write about heartache and resentment. Nothing worth reading comes from writing what can be said out loud.

Alexandra Cruz

#18. We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.

Tony Curl

#20. Shame breeds fear. It crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.

Brene Brown

#21. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

Tanith Lee

#22. Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem's cup was sure, so was his joylessness ... to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.

Tanith Lee

#23. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#24. We are all vulnerable but do not fear this, just revel in the chance to experience that & know & grow beyond.

Jay Woodman

#25. A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

Michael R. French

#26. We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak
a hard man,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#27. For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary.

Brene Brown

#28. Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage

Shannon L. Alder

#29. Many think vulnerability is weakness, but it is not. Those who refuse to be vulnerable lose the ability to understand others who are, and their fear and discomfort quickly turn into judgment and criticism.

Save Time Summaries

#30. His blue eyes were watching her now; she saw in them the vulnerability, the invitation, the fear, as she sat down quietly, placed her open hand on his chest, felt the thump, thump of his heart, which would someday stop, as all hearts do. But there was no someday now.

Elizabeth Strout

#31. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.

Euginia Herlihy

#33. The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Jewel

#34. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#35. We all fall off our horse but how many get back on? It's frightening to realize our vulnerability after a fall but we must put fear aside to progress.

Daria Hosseinyoun

#36. Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

Brene Brown

#37. Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister.

Jaime Murray

#38. I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

William Kittredge

#39. When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

Brene Brown

#40. Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.

Terri E Apter