“Yes, we are totally exposed when we are vulnerable. Yes, we are in the torture chamber that we call uncertainty. And, yes, we're taking a huge emotional risk when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. But there's not equation where taking risks, braving uncertainty, and opening up ourselves to emotional exposure equals weakness.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Here's the crux of the struggle:
I want to experience your vulnerability but I don't want to be vulnerable.
Vulnerability is courage in you and inadequacy in me.
I'm drawn to your vulnerability but repelled by mine.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“As I walked up to the stage, I literally whispered aloud, "What's worth doing even if I fail?”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“It's life asking, "Are you all in? Can you value your own vulnerability as much as you value it in others?" Answering yet to these questions is not weakness: It's courage beyond measure. It's daring greatly. And often the result of daring greatly isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“When you're frightened and brave at the same time, it's called courage. So lets just keep going.”
Source: The Bell Tower Ghosts and Other Stories
“The more your roots grow groundward, the more you rise skyward.....”
“A truly courageous person is the one who must
first conquer fear within himself.”
Source: The Castle in the Attic
“Courage is critical in any circumstance.”
“That which remains to be sensed in the carnival of emotions, that which is longing to be beheld as a fiesta of colors, that which calls to be felt for unseen, unknown, mysterious it stayed from the beginning of time, in it there lives a splendor eternal....”
“When every leaf is shed, the branches still remain and faraway in the woods though a robin cries, the song still remains for as the days unwind, they bring you sadness in the moments that should have held joy....”