In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
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.
People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.