Vulnerable Quotes - Page 2

• Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Life, Smile

  "The Sandman: The Kindly Ones". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

  Neal Shusterman

  Care, Cares About Someone

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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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• 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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• Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
  Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
  Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

  William Stringfellow

  Talking, Giving, Listening

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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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• The only way to fall in love is to allow yourself to be vulnerable.
  The only way to dare to dream and making incredible things happen is to be vulnerable.

  Bert McCracken

  Dream, Falling In Love, Love Is

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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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• People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Strong, People, Know Me

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

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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Love Life, Joy

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• We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Love, Peace, Nature

  Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965

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• ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iraq, Isis, Hitting

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• 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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• Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Running, Children, Garden

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.151, Penguin

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Technology, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Love Is, Broken

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• Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

  Herbie Hancock

  Wall, Mean, People

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

  Ayn Rand

  Dark, Personality, Red

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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• Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.

  Clay Aiken

  Education, Children, Reality

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• The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

  Byron White

  Law, Roots, Judging

  Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, 1985.

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• That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

  June Jordan

  Hurt, Children, Littles

  June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.283, Basic Books

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• People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

  Toni Collette

  People, Scary, Want

  "Touchy, feely, Toni" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Different, Human Nature, Fooled

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• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Atonement

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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