Brene Brown Quotes

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

To love is to be vulnerable.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

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.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.