Quotes about Vulnerability

In Yellowstone National Park, human-imposed stability thwarted for many years the natural process of small fires, which regularly clean out brush and dead trees. The result was a fragile equilibrium completely vulnerable to the cataclysm of fire that destroyed large areas of the park. The attempt to manage for stability and to enforce an unnatural equilibrium always leads to far-reaching destruction. The

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

But when you're insecure, your greatest asset becomes your greatest threat. Comparison will sabotage your destiny by undermining your integrity.

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Your goal is to launch an imperfect product and let people laugh at you.