Vulnerability Weakness Quotes

#1. An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

Harriet Lerner

#2. Know your enemy. The more you know about them, the less easily they can surprise you. And by studying them you might identify a weakness or vulnerability.

Jonathan Maberry

#3. we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities.

Brene Brown

#4. As we face our vulnerability and weakness, there are things you and I should pray for regularly. We should pray for purity of desire, wisdom to recognize the enemy's tricks, and strength to fight the battles we can't avoid.

Paul David Tripp

#5. That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

Dennis Lehane

#6. Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Henri Nouwen

#7. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness.

Brene Brown

#8. Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Kay Warren

#9. Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."

Betsy Landin

#10. When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence.

Mary Balogh

#11. It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror, and the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability. While

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#12. I missed you. I didn't mean to tell him so, even if it was true. Admitting need felt like weakness; it demonstrated dependence and vulnerability.

Ann Aguirre

#13. Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.

Jaeda DeWalt

#14. Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

David Whyte

#15. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Criss Jami

#16. Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Zadie Smith

#17. Vulnerability is not weakness.

Brene Brown

#18. He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#19. Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthens
one and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.
Be yourself!

Christine Willson

#20. Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

Ilona Andrews

#21. It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Desmond Tutu

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves ... are we willing to show up and be seen.

Brene Brown

#24. A straw can crush you, if you let it.

Marty Rubin

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Brene Brown

#28. I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.

Don DeLillo

#29. The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Brene Brown

#30. One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.

Dianna Hardy

#31. A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.

Girl234

#33. I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue

#34. Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

Brene Brown

#35. We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

Henri Nouwen

#36. Kindness - that is, the ability to bear the vulnerability of others, and therefore of oneself - has become a sign of weakness (except of course among saintly people, in whom it is a sign of their exceptionality).

Adam Phillips

#37. Vulnerability does not take away your strength

Derek Hough