Vulnerable Quotes - Page 26

• If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Makeup, Psychological

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Compassion, Broken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

  Eudora Welty

  Sleep, Faces, Necks

  Eudora Welty (2011). “The Optimist's Daughter”, p.60, Vintage

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• She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

  Azar Nafisi

  Honesty, People, Honest

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• The heart is what is important." There is nothing more vulnerable, nothing more corruptible than the human mind; nor is there anything as powerful, steadfast and ennobling.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Powerful, Heart, Mind

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• What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

  Richelle Mead

  What Matters, Soul, Easier

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

  Daniel Handler

  Evil, House, Olaf

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• She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Doors, House

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.461, Simon and Schuster

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• No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.

  Rachilde

  Heart, Sacrifice, Echoes

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• I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hurt, Believe, What Is Love

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• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

  Nick Hornby

  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

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• That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Kindness, Home, Giving

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• Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Suffering, Matter

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.61, Harper Collins

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• For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Waiting, Forever, Listening

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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• I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

  Francoise Sagan

  Discovery, Irritated, Found

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

  Edward Abbey

  Sea, Sky, Perfect

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

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• The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

  George F. Kennan

  Ideas, Abuse, Atheism

  "American Diplomacy". Book by George F. Kennan, 1951.

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• Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Father, Book

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• I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Love, Dream, Knives

  Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Sorry, Battle, Helping

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

  Andrew Vachss

  Enemy, Spirit, Intimacy

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• ...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

  Keith Ablow

  People, Warning, Facts

  Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2007). “Psychopath: A Novel”, p.13, St. Martin's Press

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• She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Loneliness, Cynical, Moments

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• When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Hurt, Disappointment, Giving

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• Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.

  Simone Elkeles

  Beautiful, Mistake, Special

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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