Vulnerable Quotes

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Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are… — Antonio Damasio
Thereâ€™s something about seeing an adult you knew in childhood that makes them marginally vulnerable to you, and vice versa. Thereâ€™s also something comforting in… — Vicki Pettersson
Can't you just thank me and get over it?" "Thank you." I waited, fuming and expectant. "You're not going to let it go, are you?"… — Stephenie Meyer
You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes… — Cecelia Ahern
And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd… — Megan McCafferty
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not… — BrenÃ© Brown
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not… — Robert Cormier
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have… — Alexandra Adornetto
Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in… — Gladys Taber
And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything. — Christine Feehan
Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love. — Paulo Coelho
To love in any way is to be like a childâ€”it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such… — Ted Dekker
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We… — Carl Sagan
The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for… — Vladimir Nabokov
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone. — Anna Godbersen
Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood. — Poppy Z. Brite
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can… — Frank Herbert
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise… — Virginia C. Andrews
So I make no effort to hide my pain. I donâ€™t ever put it all on display like thisâ€”but for today and all the rest… — Ann Aguirre
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and… — Niall Ferguson

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