45 Inspirational Quotes on Vulnerability (DARE TO BE)

Top 10 Vulnerability Quotes to Inspire You (DARE TO BE DIFFERENT)

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. - Crissi Jami — To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. – Crissi Jami

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. - Paulo Coelho — The strongest **love** is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. – **Paulo Coelho**

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful. - Brene Brown — What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful. – **Brene Brown**

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. - Walter Anderson — We’re never so vulnerable than when we **trust** someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find **love** or joy. – **Walter Anderson**

What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. - Haruki Murakami — What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. – **Haruki Murakami**

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
Madeleine L’Engle

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. - Brene Brown — Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and **change**. – **Brene Brown**

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. - Brene Brown — Vulnerability sounds like **truth** and feels like **courage**. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness. – **Brene Brown**

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. - Bob Marley — The **truth** is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – **Bob Marley**

35 Inspirational Quotes on Vulnerability So You Can Experience Love and Life to the Fullest

“It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”
Amy Poehler

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me. - Alanis Morissette — I found that the more **truthful** and vulnerable I was, the more **empowering** it was for me. – Alanis Morissette

You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it. - Julien Smith — You can **change** the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it. – Julien Smith

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. - George R. R. Martin — Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. – George R. R. Martin

Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny, precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go. - Anita Krizzan — Let your heart crumble into an infinite amount of tiny, precious seeds. Then plant love everywhere you go. – Anita Krizzan

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. - Vironika Tugaleva — Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. – Vironika Tugaleva

Your weirdness will make you stronger. - Andrea Balt — Your weirdness will make you stronger. – Andrea Balt

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity. - Brene Brown — When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity. – **Brene Brown**

Being our messy, imperfect, authentic selves helps create a space where others feel safe to be themselves too. Your vulnerability can be a gift to others. How badass is that? - Brittin Oakman — Being our messy, **imperfect**, authentic selves helps create a space where others feel safe to be themselves too. Your vulnerability can be a gift to others. How badass is that? – Brittin Oakman

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. - William S. Burroughs — There is no intensity of **love** or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to **love** and feel without defense or reserve. – William S. Burroughs

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. - Criss Jami — Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. – **Criss Jami**

People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time. - Toni Bernhard — People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same **time**. – Toni Bernhard

If you learn from your mistake, it’s called repairing. If you don’t, it’s called repeating. - Annie Tanasugarn — If you learn from your mistake, it’s called repairing. If you don’t, it’s called repeating. – Annie Tanasugarn

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. - Ernest Hemingway — The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the **truth**, the capacity for sacrifice. – **Ernest Hemingway**

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. - Zig Ziglar — The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to **forgive** is the strongest. – **Zig Ziglar**

Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed. - Kathy Magliato — Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed. – Kathy Magliato

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. - Vincent Van Gogh — In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. – **Vincent Van Gogh**

Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. - Ryan North — Our brains are wired for connection, but trauma rewires them for protection. – Ryan North

You can’t fully live your life without experiencing the joy, the beauty, and the fear, the sadness. - Jeremiah Say — You can’t fully live your life without experiencing the joy, the beauty, and the **fear**, the sadness. – **Jeremiah Say**

Maybe I’ll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won’t know until I do it. - Selena Gomez — Maybe I’ll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won’t know until I do it. – **Selena Gomez**

Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

The world has enough women who live a masked insecurity. It needs more women who live a brave vulnerability. - Ann Voskamp — The world has enough women who live a masked insecurity. It needs more women who live a brave vulnerability. – Ann Voskamp

A woman who opens her heart to love you when it’s already broken is braver than any person you’ll meet. - Steven Benson — A woman who opens her heart to love you when it’s already broken is braver than any person you’ll meet. – Steven Benson

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken. - Amy Poehler — Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s been broken. – Amy Poehler

When we feel safe enough to expose our shadows, that’s when we become free. - Gabby Bernstein — When we feel safe enough to expose our shadows, that’s when we become free. – Gabby Bernstein

You don’t protect your heart by acting like you don’t have one.

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. - Jeremiah Say — Having a soft heart in a cruel world is **courage**, not weakness. – **Jeremiah Say**

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle — There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. – **Aristotle**

Love yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. - Jeremiah Say — Love yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. – **Jeremiah Say**

Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. - Eric Michael Leventhal — We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. – Eric Michael Leventhal

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all. - Mary Rubin — A heart that can break is better than no heart at all. – Mary Rubin

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real. - Marty Rubin — Real dishes break. That’s how you know they’re real. – Marty Rubin

To love is to be vulnerable. - C.S. Lewis — To **love** is to be vulnerable. – **C.S. Lewis**

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs

Conclusion: The Importance of Vulnerability

Lexico.com describes vulnerability as the state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. (Source)

The importance of vulnerability is the capacity to share and talk about the things that may hurt a person, and because of this, it allows new ways of looking at situations with fresh eyes.

Author and lecturer, Brené Brown teaches that “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change”. (Source)

Accessing this change improves one’s image of self-worth, as one would allow themselves to be accepted by those around them. Being honest and open to change helps a person rethink their negative self-image.

Vulnerability exposes the truth, making it easier to overcome negative emotions and process these emotions more healthily. Allowing one’s self to process their vulnerability enables a person to become more accountable for their actions, making them more self-aware.

Being vulnerable makes an individual more accountable for their thoughts, patterns, and behavior, which opens up avenues to pursue positive changes.

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