Melody Beattie Quotes

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

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

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I need to be able to face things.

Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

I think being vulnerable to other humans is a form of strength.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

True power is given to the vulnerable.

It takes strength to show vulnerability.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.