Quotes about Vulnerability

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. Votes: 7

Vulnerability is not weakness. Votes: 6

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Votes: 6

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Votes: 6

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. Votes: 6

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. Votes: 6

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. Votes: 6

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. Votes: 5

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. Votes: 4

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. Votes: 4

Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human. Votes: 4

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable. Votes: 4

Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences. Votes: 4

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments. Votes: 4

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. Votes: 4

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. Votes: 4

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling. Votes: 4

Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences. Votes: 4

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come. Votes: 4

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Votes: 4

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country. Votes: 4

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength. Votes: 4

You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed... Votes: 4

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning. Votes: 4

Vulnerability is power. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not weakness. Votes: 3

Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence. Votes: 3

Vulnerability does not take away your strength Votes: 3

Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day. Votes: 3

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Votes: 3

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Votes: 3

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience. Votes: 3

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world. Votes: 3

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. Votes: 3

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. Votes: 3

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability. Votes: 3

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love. Votes: 3

Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is kind of one of those things of, how do I really feel in this moment? Votes: 3

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for. Votes: 3

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. Votes: 3

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give. Votes: 3

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive? Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think. Votes: 3

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. Votes: 3

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love. Votes: 3

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now. Votes: 3

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them. Votes: 3

Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them. Votes: 3

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability. Votes: 2

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot. Votes: 2

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' Votes: 2

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. Votes: 2

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment. Votes: 2

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths. Votes: 2

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time. Votes: 2

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind. Votes: 2

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything. Votes: 2

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important. Votes: 2

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. Votes: 2

We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are. Votes: 2

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. Votes: 2

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' Votes: 2

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. Votes: 2

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts. Votes: 1

Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain. Votes: 1

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity Votes: 1

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability. Votes: 1

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is. Votes: 1

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others. Votes: 1

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out. Votes: 1

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness. Votes: 1

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability. Votes: 1

We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness. Votes: 1

He is my vulnerability Votes: 0

Your vulnerability is your power. Votes: 0

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism Votes: 0

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability. Votes: 0

It takes strength to show vulnerability. Votes: 0

Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. Votes: 0

Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister. Votes: 0

There is no creativity without vulnerability. Votes: 0

I do think vulnerability is a virtue. Votes: 0

There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability. Votes: 0

Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability. Votes: 0

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. Votes: 0

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. Votes: 0

When you're all in, you will know sweet vulnerability. Votes: 0

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull. Votes: 0

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability. Votes: 0

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability. Votes: 0

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him. Votes: 0

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. Votes: 0

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. Votes: 0

One's strongest asset is simultaneously his point of strongest vulnerability. Votes: 0

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability. Votes: 0

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability. Votes: 0

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability. Votes: 0

Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability. Votes: 0

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability Votes: 0

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it. Votes: 0

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. Votes: 0

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power. Votes: 0

I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin. Votes: 0

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability Votes: 0

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. Votes: 0

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude. Votes: 0

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. Votes: 0

The tendency to trust easily anyone gives way to a certain vulnerability. Votes: 0

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence. Votes: 0

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes. Votes: 0

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give. Votes: 0

If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself. Votes: 0

I think vulnerability is one of the most amazing things about music. Votes: 0

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing Votes: 0

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. Votes: 0

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. Votes: 0

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment Votes: 0

First learn to become invincible, then wait for your enemy's moment of vulnerability. Votes: 0

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified. Votes: 0

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship. Votes: 0

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. Votes: 0

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. Votes: 0

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage. Votes: 0

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability. Votes: 0

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. Votes: 0

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability Votes: 0

I guess sacrifice inspires my vulnerability, sacrifice and just having good people around me. Votes: 0

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times. Votes: 0

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity. Votes: 0

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay. Votes: 0

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust... Votes: 0

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. Votes: 0

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way. Votes: 0

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. Votes: 0

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved. Votes: 0

Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? Votes: 0

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. Votes: 0

It was Chelsea who captures our plummet before it reaches the deepest parts of our vulnerability. Votes: 0

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future. Votes: 0

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends. Votes: 0

We have to transcend our own negativity and vulnerability and work from our own inner security. Votes: 0

There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now. Votes: 0

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. Votes: 0

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield. Votes: 0

Unless it hurts, unless there's some vulnerability there, I don't think you're going to get good photographs. Votes: 0

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. Votes: 0

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability. Votes: 0

Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement. Votes: 0

Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness- Votes: 0

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability. Votes: 0

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy. Votes: 0

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome. Votes: 0

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. Votes: 0

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce. Votes: 0

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce. Votes: 0

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability. Votes: 0

The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability. Votes: 0

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. Votes: 0

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic. Votes: 0

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. Votes: 0

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal. Votes: 0

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. Votes: 0

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there. Votes: 0

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they? Votes: 0

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open Votes: 0

It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people. Votes: 0

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies. Votes: 0

We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us. Votes: 0

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying Votes: 0

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in. Votes: 0

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust. Votes: 0

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. Votes: 0

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves. Votes: 0

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead. Votes: 0

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. Votes: 0

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure. Votes: 0

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this. Votes: 0

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' Votes: 0

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen. Votes: 0

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes. Votes: 0

If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities. Votes: 0

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability. Votes: 0

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability. Votes: 0

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care. Votes: 0

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged. Votes: 0

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear. Votes: 0

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind. Votes: 0

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality. Votes: 0

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability. Votes: 0

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor. Votes: 0

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work. Votes: 0

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability. Votes: 0

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability. Votes: 0

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound. Votes: 0

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much. Votes: 0

Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity. Votes: 0

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. Votes: 0

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility. Votes: 0

Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity. Votes: 0

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women. Votes: 0

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised. Votes: 0

Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there's something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh? Votes: 0

During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders. Votes: 0

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen. Votes: 0

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. Votes: 0

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it. Votes: 0

All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it. Votes: 0

I think vulnerable is something you should always be. [It] makes you open to each experience. I try not to see vulnerability as a negative. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other. Votes: 0

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength. Votes: 0

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. Votes: 0

There's nothing more unattractive than a man who blames predestination for his own failures and a woman who blames men for her own vulnerability...Blame thyself Votes: 0

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance. Votes: 0

Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary. Votes: 0

Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent. Votes: 0

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Votes: 0

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. Votes: 0

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly. Votes: 0

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths. Votes: 0

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal? Votes: 0

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood. Votes: 0

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you. Votes: 0

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins. Votes: 0

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality. Votes: 0

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader. Votes: 0

I believe it is crucial to consider the degree to which one woman's possession of reproductive choice may actually depend on or deepen another woman's reproductive vulnerability. Votes: 0

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability. Votes: 0

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability. Votes: 0

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility. Votes: 0

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression. Votes: 0

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We're almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it's inviting disaster. Votes: 0

Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs. Votes: 0

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life. Votes: 0

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough. Votes: 0

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable. Votes: 0

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener. Votes: 0

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough. Votes: 0

It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is. Votes: 0

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike. Votes: 0

Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes. Votes: 0

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core. Votes: 0

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!" Votes: 0

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. Votes: 0

How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me. Votes: 0

These early decisions can foreclose many opportunities to reshape the patterns of development in a community so as to make it better and safer by reducing vulnerability to future disasters. Votes: 0

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter. Votes: 0

I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability. Votes: 0

Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself. Votes: 0

Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me. Votes: 0

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent. Votes: 0

I have known people who radiate vulnerability. Their facial expressions say I am afraid of you. These people invite abuse. By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it? Votes: 0

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. Votes: 0

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in. Votes: 0

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. Votes: 0

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. Votes: 0

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability ... Votes: 0

I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits Votes: 0

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate. Votes: 0

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks. Votes: 0

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching. Votes: 0

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play. Votes: 0

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability. Votes: 0

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses. Votes: 0

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak. Votes: 0

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall. Votes: 0

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman. Votes: 0

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness. Votes: 0

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It's all creation. It's made. It's not a given. Votes: 0

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism. Votes: 0

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it. Votes: 0

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that. Votes: 0

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverseknowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanentconstruction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, socialexposure). Votes: 0

I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts. Votes: 0

If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering. Votes: 0

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. Votes: 0

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability. Votes: 0

...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about vulnerability and openness and falling in love with solid ground. Votes: 0

Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings. Votes: 0

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. Votes: 0

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself. Votes: 0

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa. Votes: 0

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose. Votes: 0

Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability. Votes: 0

Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability. Votes: 0

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one. Votes: 0

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths. Votes: 0

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans. Votes: 0