CURATED COLLECTION

Embracing Vulnerability

The bravest thing you can do is let yourself be seen — fully, imperfectly, as you are.

43 quotes found

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I want to be free even from myself.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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My path is lonely, but I walk with my head held high.

—Mahadevi VarmaPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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I'd rather be whole than good.

—Carl JungPsychiatrist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

—Nawal El SaadawiFeminist, Writer & Physician

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do.

—Isabel AllendeNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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A woman who keeps silent in pain is already dead.

—Doreen BainganaWriter

Contemporary ERA • East Africa

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Love is not about possession, but sacrifice. It demands everything, gives tirelessly.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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I have the right to be silent.

—Anna AkhmatovaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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

—Brené BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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To live is like loving: surrender body and soul, without fear.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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You have to believe that you’ll be okay. Because you will.

—Hanya YanagiharaNovelist & Editor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I must be myself. I cannot break my spirit and resist it.

—Sylvia PlathPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Amar es abrir una puerta por donde puede entrar el miedo, pero también el sol.

—Cristina Peri RossiPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?

—Charlotte BrontëNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is to dare to tell what others prefer not to hear.

—Assia DjebarNovelist & Historian

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up when you can't control the outcome.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I'm ready to suffer, I'm ready to hope.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own.

—Clarice LispectorNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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A mother's love—how awful and how beautiful!

—Harriet Beecher StoweAbolitionist & Author

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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