Vulnerability Quotes · Page 18

Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.

— Kalki Koechlin

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

— Brene Brown

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

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Jan Egeland

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it…

— Chris Sullivan

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

— Kim Wilde

It's hard to be vulnerable with people in general, and then trying to find the balance between expressing vulnerability and openness with…

— Trinity Rodman

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who…

— Leigh Bardugo

The fight that needs to be won is over that false pride before you can discover the vulnerability that allows you to…

— Rege-Jean Page

If people can learn from my mistakes, or feel more of a sense of connection with what I'm saying because I've shown…

— Randi Zuckerberg

This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means…

— Barack Obama

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and…

— Zach Wamp

The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We're getting bolder with our drama and we're allowing women to be unapologetic about their ambitions in a professional sense, and also…

— Asher Keddie

“Relationships are based on collusion, wounds and co-dependency. Security and happiness are suggested to be found through material belongings, jobs and other…

— Padma Aon Prakasha

Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The…

— Tara Brach

The fourth doorway is the Doorway of Openness located in our heart center. It has to do with being open to both…

— Marci Shimoff

I told myself that if I hoped to write a book that helped people to take a good look at some of…

— Matthew West

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“You wish you could go back to a time when God wasn’t confusing--when God and everything made sense. Your questions matter. Your…

— Brenda Seefeldt Amodea

Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for…

— Sue Thoele

I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized…

— Jason Mraz

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature…

— Irvine Welsh

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern…

— Darrel Ray

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.

— Esther Dyson

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art…

— Mary Gauthier

“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

— Rebecca West

As a color, red represents so many things - power, sensuality, vulnerability, and strength.

— Ariana DeBose

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to…

— Alice Walsh

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or…

— Ilona Andrews

“Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other.”

— Wai Lan Yuen

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to…

— Samuel L. Jackson

“...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...”

— John Geddes

“To be strong I must first admit that I am weak. And that requires some of the greatest strength imaginable.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Rick Warren

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire…

— Warren Farrell

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

— Bryan Fuller

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

— Mary Pipher

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…

— Nadine Velazquez

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

— Jill Soloway