Vulnerable Quotes - Page 33

• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• I'm an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.

  Barry Humphries

  Husband, Women, Desire

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can't-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be - like with Superman and Lois Lane. There's the first kiss - one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there's the kiss of possession - which was how Ren kissed me now.

  Colleen Houck

  Sexy, War, Farewell

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• At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are more resistant to roadside bombs, its leadership is fighting for a proposal that would have the opposite effect on roads here at home: a measure sought by environmentalists that would force automakers to make vehicles sold domestically much lighter and, thus, more vulnerable in collisions.

  Deneen Borelli

  Home, Fighting, Opposites

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• The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.

  Chuck Cannon

  Stupid, Writing, Needs

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• When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

  Gary Haugen

  Grandchildren, Compassion, Leader

  Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.

  Jeff Goodell

  Impact, Long, Climate

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• Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

  Pope Francis

  Sick, Pro Life, God's Creation

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• Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

  Barack Obama

  People, Pro Life, Together

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Artist, Criticism, Way

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• Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

  Danny Boyle

  Ideas, Different, Way

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Brother

  Pope Francis' Message to Cardinal Kurt Koch On The Occasion of The 10th General Assembly of The World Council Of Churches, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2013.

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• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Position

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• But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

  Wess Stafford

  Safety, Heaven, Adults

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Silence, Rejection, Empathy

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Empathy

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• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Home, Empathy, Lines

  "The GQA: Padma Lakshmi". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Government, Majority, Prejudice

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• For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Rights, Shadow, World

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• When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

  Richard J. Corman

  Inspirational, Pride, Risk

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security

  Carl Levin

  Jobs, People, Helping

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• It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

  Harriet Lerner

  Running, Brave, Want

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 23, 2016

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• Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

  Spencer Bachus

  Class, Play, Black

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• Emotionally, it was the hardest 33 days of my life, but it was worth it because the result is that this album is 100 percent me. It’s heartfelt, real, bold, honest, vulnerable, hopeful, strong, poetic, bluesy, gritty, pretty, and simple.

  Christina Perri

  Strong, Real, Simple

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