Vulnerable Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

  Beau Garrett

  Acting, Uncomfortable

  "Beau Garrett Is a Woman We Love". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2010.

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• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Risk, Guilt, Taught

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “The Rag-bag: A Collection of Ephemera”, p.263

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• I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

  Ellen Muth

  Mother, Father, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

  Pattie Mallette

  World, Critics, Whole

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.

  Edward Snowden

  Insecure, Nsa, Agency

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Singing, Heartbreaking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

  Tavis Smiley

  Successful, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

  Nick Nolte

  Oscars, Too Much, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

  Kevin Flynn

  Running, Play, Ontario

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• Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.

  Adyashanti

  Heart, Mind, Moments

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

  Kwame Dawes

  Stars, Prayer, Writing

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• Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Knows, Who You Are

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• I had to be physically and emotionally naked, show both my body and soul. I felt emotionally vulnerable and physically exposed, it was a hard choice to make but I was intrigued since the beginning. I think that...the things that scare you the most are the ones you gotta do.

  Dakota Johnson

  Thinking, Choices, Soul

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• I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Character, Fate, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.64, Anchor

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• Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Good Man, Manners, Protect

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• The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You're vulnerable, you've sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Irs

  "Ron Paul | Candidates at Google". Interview with Elliot Schrage, www.youtube.com. July 14, 2007.

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• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Self, Choices, Denial

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• You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Broken, Done

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  Paddy Considine

  Giving Up, Thinking, Trying

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• The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Compassion, Safety

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• It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Fearless, Important

  FaceBook post by Nicole Scherzinger from Aug 30, 2012

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• Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.

  Melody Beattie

  Scared, Weak, Feels

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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