Vulnerability Quotes - Page 2

• I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Love, Feelings, Weakness

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• Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

  Theodore Roethke

  Love, Relationship, Vulnerable

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.177, Anchor

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• The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 16, 2012

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Growing Up, Suicidal

  "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1972.

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• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Animal, Broken

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

  Asa Hutchinson

  Terrorist

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• Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Goal, Cynical, Terrorism

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

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  To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

  Susan Sontag

  Time, Moments, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

  Shemar Moore

  Inspirational, Strength, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.

  George Carey

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Doe, Misery

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

  Brené Brown

  Giving Up, Joy, Vulnerable

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

  Philippa Perry

  Order, Knowing, Needs

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.

  Zachary Quinto

  Real, Angel, Years

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• To be is to be vulnerable.

  Norman O. Brown

  Vulnerable

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

  Tennessee Williams

  Desire, Want, Loser

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Stress, Successful, Effort

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• We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection

  Brené Brown

  Spiritual, Powerful, Kindness

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them- we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

  Brené Brown

  Betrayal, Love Is, Two

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Struggle, Imperfect

  "The Vulnerable Faith of Brené Brown" by Jamie Arpin-Ricci, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.

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• Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

  Price Pritchett

  Together, Glue

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• With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growth, Way, Vulnerable

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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