stuff tagged with "vulnerability"

I will not be a mystery to my children. They will know me and I will share my stories with them - the stories of failure, shame, & accomplishment. They will know they aren't alone in the wilderness.

— Viola Davis

The secret is being able to express what you feel, and not what the other person wants you to hear.

— Godfrey Reggio

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

— M. Scott Peck

Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our most accurate measure of courage.

— Brené Brown

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

— Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady”