Vulnerable Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.

  Chris Noth

  Two, Healthy, Atmosphere

  "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

  Tim Gunn

  Past, Issues, People

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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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• Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  Natalie Dormer

  Lovely, Quirky, Genius

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• In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Expectations, Risk

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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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• Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Book, Humble, Writing

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• I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Lonely, Children, Growing Up

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• A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection - unless you lie - in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

  Harold Pinter

  Lying, Wind, Choices

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

  Arabella Weir

  New Year, Exercise, Years

  "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Believe, School

  "AFTER THE ATTACKS: FINDING FAULT; U.S. 'Secular' Groups Set Tone For Terror Attacks, Falwell Says" by Gustav Niebuhr, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2001.

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• Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Investing, Movement, Earning

  "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

  Pope John Paul II

  Dying, Treats, Members

  Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2000.

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• A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

  Du Fu

  Wind, Sky, Two

  Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”

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• Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

  A. J. McLean

  Communication, People

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• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Long, Biographies

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• The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Pain, Feelings, Mind

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