courageous vulnerability Quotes

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

The bravest are the tenderest.

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

Being with my family and loved ones makes me feel vulnerable. Speaking my truth and then being that in action. Leaving my comfort zone but knowing that risk is going to create something beautiful. I believe I have come to good terms with my vulnerability. I welcome it now, where I didn't in the past.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

She couldn’t hide from everyone for the rest of her life… Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.