Browsing Topic Best Vulnerable Quotes

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

…and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

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

Ask yourself: Is the connection real if there is no space to be vulnerable?

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both.

What we’re seeing, because of this increase in transmissibility, and because we have about 93 million people in this country who are eligible to get vaccinated who don’t get vaccinated — that you have a significant pool of vulnerable people.

A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable – literally, ‘able to be wounded.’ To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals — and communication is the way we can bring this about.

Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don’t have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they’re less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people – particularly being turbocharged through social media.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we’re not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

You always feel quite vulnerable when you’re naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it’s not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It’s art. It’s not vulgar. It’s not indecent. It’s not realistic. It’s beautiful, I think.

I have felt a calling to dedicate my life in a more direct and personal way to serving the marginalized, empowering the vulnerable and healing those who suffer from spiritual wounds.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I’m always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that’s what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

Take off your armor; dare to be vulnerable, dare to unwrap yourself, and dare yourself to be yourself.

If you’re a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You’ve been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

God doesn’t expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we’re disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

When we’re defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

It’s always nerve-wracking; it’s like going to a new school every time you start a new movie. There are so many people and you’re trying to be comfortable and vulnerable on set in order to be fearless on camera. But it’s fun, it’s part of the job. You’ve just got to be very personable, I guess.

Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable—those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic … or those who have learned to master life without?

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.