Capacity Quote by Brené Brown

It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

— Alicia Keys

“Vulnerability scares most of us because we've been taught that FEELING our feelings is a sign of "over-sensitivity and weakness". We've taught ourselves to…

— Marlene Milner

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed…

— Neal A. Maxwell

The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind…

— Tara Brach

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules…

— Anais Nin

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Fear is what shackles and binds us; it puts weights on our feet and closes our minds to the endless possibilities.

— Anonymous

Our consciousness wants to connect through struggle and even pain. So in a funny sort of way, vulnerability is attractive.

— Zoe Buckman

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

— Frances Moore Lappé

People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and…

— Jodee Blanco