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• Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Helping, Conflict

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• We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

  John Ortberg

  Prayer, Mind, Today

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.135, Harper Collins

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• The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Mean, Acceptance, Emotional

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

  Jane Rule

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Understanding

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Kristin Hahn, www.elle.com. August 4, 2009.

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• Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

  Mary Pipher

  Friendship, Honesty, Kindness

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.141, Penguin

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• During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

  Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

  Risk, Eating Disorder, Investigation

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• My people have a legend of the Dayslayer. It says that Artemis chose one of our own to be her personal guard. More beloved than any of her people, the Dayslayer has no known vulnerability. Once he’s unleashed, his goal is destroy Dark-Hunters. (Spawn) So you’re telling me he’s the Bogeyman? (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, People, Goal

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• There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, Reality, America

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• It is most often not our strengths, our courage or our successes that bring two human hearts together, but it is often our shared vulnerability, our fears and our common failures that make us one.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Heart, Two, Deep Thought

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• America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Dog, America, Usual

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• An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.

  Harriet Lerner

  Party, Sacrifice, Intimate Relationships

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

  Abe Burrows

  Taken, Feel Better, People

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• Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

  Cindy Gallop

  Single Mom, Thinking, Giving

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• It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

  Florence Welch

  People, Vulnerable, Intimacy

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• And with the right mentor, don't be afraid to expose your vulnerabilities. Admit you don't know what you don't know. When you acknowledge your weaknesses and ask for advice, you'll be surprised how much others will help.

  Howard Schultz

  Advice, Mentor, Weakness

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

  Jared Diamond

  Children, Real, Heart

  "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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• Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

  Bill Gross

  Mean, Human Nature, Institutions

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Errors, Years

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• When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Tolerance, Loses

  "Dr. Brene Brown: Joy Is ‘The Most Terrifying, Difficult Emotion’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

  Brené Brown

  People, Imperfection, Courageous

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• It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Song, Prayer, Pain

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• You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Compton

  "Kendrick Lamar: the rise of a good kid rapper in a mad city". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Home, Visionaries, Lines

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• The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting booboos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid.

  Janet Fitch

  Kids, People, Trying

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