Ally Carter 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.

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

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

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

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 strength to show vulnerability.

It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.

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 coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

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 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.'

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

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

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.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

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

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.