David Whyte Quotes

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.

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.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

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.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I'm very human.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

My strength is that I'm an empath.

I used to think I was tough, but there's a difference between bravado and courage, and I only started to show courage when I began to get help. So now I make a point of telling people, 'Hey, it's a good thing to ask for help, not a bad thing.'

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

I know when I listen to people speak and they share their weaknesses, I'm listening, because I can resonate.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

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

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.