Vulnerable Quotes - Page 36

• I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Commitment, Thinking

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

  Russell Brand

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

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• When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

  David D. Burns

  Hurt, Powerful, Real

  David D. Burns (1999). “The Feeling Good Handbook”, Plume Books

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• I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

  Amy Plum

  Empowered, Felt

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

  Harold Bloom

  Space, People, Sorrow

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Age, Want

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• When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

  Beth Moore

  Spiritual, Armor, Pieces

  Beth Moore (2008). “Believing God Day by Day: Growing Your Faith All Year Long”, p.4, B&H Publishing Group

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• That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

  Peter van Uhm

  Motivation, Inspiration, Gun

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• If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course knows this and accordingly attempts to blur our vision. He lies. He shades and obliterates truth. He makes evil look good and good look unenlightened and unsophisticated. Make no mistake about it: Lucifer will do anything to derail, disappoint, dishearten, discourage, and deceive us—and particularly those who have made and are seeking to keep sacred covenants. His motives are entirely self-centered, selfish, destructive, and evil.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mistake, Lying, Selfish

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

  Richard Koch

  Diverse, Species, Homogeneous

  Richard Koch (2013). “The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

  John Welwood

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

  Robert McKee

  Laughter, Hate, Fall

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Path, Dare

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• Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.

  Penelope Douglas

  Decision, Weakness, Sometimes

  Penelope Douglas (2014). “Bully: The Fall Away Series”, p.76, Penguin

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• To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

  Don Cupitt

  Love Is, God Love, Ifs

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.37, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Giving, Choices, Scary

  Jessi Kirby (2013). “Golden”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Resolving to influence and persuade others will require a degree of personal passion and a depth of caring that you are willing to express and act on. I can tell you this: it will make you feel very vulnerable. The only antidote is to believe you are after a worthwhile change and that you are likely to be the right one to lead this particular charge.

  Charlotte Beers

  Believe, Passion, Caring

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.239, Vanguard Press

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• People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

  Jodee Blanco

  Wall, Receiving Love, People

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• I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
  AND THANK EVERYONE
  WHO TRIES TO MAKE
  A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
  OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

  Widad Akrawi

  Differences, Making A Difference, Trying

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• When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

  Amit Goswami

  Growth, Pretension, Inner Growth

  Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher

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• The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

  Nelson Mandela

  Our World, Hands, Suffering

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at his Birthday dinner in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, db.nelsonmandela.org. June 25, 2008.

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• I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

  Jane Lynch

  Art, Strong, Lessons

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• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  Brené Brown

  Feelings, Weakness, Connections

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