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• What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

  Brené Brown

  Beautiful, Vulnerable

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Dark, What Is Love

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

  Bob Graham

  Country, Strong, America

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• Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Winning, Losing, Shows

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• Vulnerability is not weakness.

  Brené Brown

  Weakness

  Brené Brown (2007). “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"”, p.79, Penguin

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• A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.

  Clark Moustakas

  Grief, Support, Joy

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• An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.

  Peter London

  Artist, Creative, Effort

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• The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

  Morris Berman

  Spiritual, Real, Work

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• Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

  John Krasinski

  Fall, Fighting, Thinking

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• When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

  Wanda Koop

  Art, Body, Vulnerable

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• I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Feelings, Quality, Way

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

  Todd Gitlin

  Movement, May, Awful

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Ideas, Suits Of Armor, Flesh

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• I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Character, Insecure, Intelligent

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• I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Struggle, Thinking

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Serenity, Trying, Innocence

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• I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

  Ben Heppner

  Acting, Development, Vulnerable

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• Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

  Norman Doidge

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Influence

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• Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Showing Up, Overcoming Fear, Daring Greatly

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.34, Penguin

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• The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

  Jewel

  Loneliness, Talking, Secret

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• Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

  Jason Mraz

  Expression, Middle, Obvious

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• It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Thinking, Practice

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• The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

  Virginia Satir

  Feelings, Defense, Faces

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• The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Fall, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

  Amy Adams

  Sexy, Strong, Powerful

  "Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, David O. Russell, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale Interview THE FIGHTER; Read or Listen to a Great Press Conference". Press Conference, collider.com. December 5, 2010.

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