Audre Lorde Quotes

I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

You find strength in your moments of weakness.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

Vulnerability is power.

What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.

The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

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.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.