Brene Brown

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. ”

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability. ”

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 was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either. ”

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster. ”

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything. ”

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. ”

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

One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.' ”

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability. ”