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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.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

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.