You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.
Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.
(n.) The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.
I'd never recited poetry to anyone before; I've never done it since. I have a highly sensitive, built-in fuse mechanism that keeps me from opening up too far, from revealing my feelings, and reciting...
Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.
What it means to be authentic:- to be more concerned with truth than opinions- to be sincere and not pretend- to be free from hypocrisy: "walk your talk"- to know who you are and to be that person- to...
People often silence themselves, or agree to disagree without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we a...
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must dev...
Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.
We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.
I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to sp...
One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
True art comes from the anonymous self.
Vulnerability does not take away your strength
Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment
I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like this."The Panopticon
Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the...
The integration of information and vulnerabilities move together.