Vulnerability Quotes - Page 4

• Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Risk, Fuel

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• Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

  Brené Brown

  Disappointment, Grief, Hungry

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• There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Errors, Empathy, Effort

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.249, Penguin

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• Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.

  Brené Brown

  Cornerstones

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2013

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• Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it.

  Tara Brach

  Compassion, Suffering, Action

  "Compassion" by Tara Brach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

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• A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Advice, Accepting

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• There is no creativity without vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity

  Twitter post from Jul 3, 2012

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• I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Thinking, Safety

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fighting

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Heart, Human Experience

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.244, Penguin

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• On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

  George W. Bush

  World Suffering, America, September 11

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

  Daryl Hannah

  Firsts, Innocence, Villain

  "Daryl Hannah Talks Kill Bill" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 8, 2003.

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• I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

  Juan Pablo Di Pace

  Character, Findings

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

  Max Lucado

  Honesty, People, Our Relationship

  Source: thebrinkonline.com

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Betrayal, Risk

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Integrity, World, Sometimes

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Penguin

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• We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Upset, Trying

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• Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.

  Francis Levy

  Thinking, Imperfection, Narcissistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

  Judith Butler

  War, Commitment, Giving

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

  Matisyahu

  World, Wonderful, Vulnerable

  Interview with Michael Barata, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

  Victoria Laurie

  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

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• By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

  Jill Soloway

  Recognizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Space, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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