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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. -- Brene Brown
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. -- Sylvia Kristel
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. -- Cesare Pavese
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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. -- Gail Sheehy
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. -- Brene Brown
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. -- Paulo Coelho
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Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments. -- Asa Hutchinson
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. -- BrenÃ© Brown
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. -- Todd Gitlin
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. -- M. Scott Peck
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Thomas S. Buechner
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. -- Paula Modersohn-Becker
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. -- Norman Doidge
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. -- Susan Sontag
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. -- Bob Graham
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. -- Elisabeth Shue
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... -- Chogyam Trungpa
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. -- Suzanne Gordon
Vulnerability is power. -- Saul Williams
Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage -- Shannon L. Alder
Vulnerability does not take away your strength -- Derek Hough
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day. -- Ani DiFranco
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller. -- Tori Amos
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding. -- David Whyte
I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked. -- Mariel Hemingway
Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human. -- Benjamin Stone
Vulnerability is strength. It is being honest about who you are & about your experiences. -- Tara Estacaan
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. -- Madi Diaz
Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world. -- Matisyahu
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. -- Sharon Salzberg
Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting. -- Colleen Saidman
Vulnerability is the absolute heartbeat of innovation and creativity. There can be zero innovation without vulnerability. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability is kind of one of those things of, how do I really feel in this moment? -- Tyler Blackburn
Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other. -- Wai Lan Yuen
The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love. -- Donald Miller
Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. -- Brene Brown
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. -- Brene Brown
True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give. -- Sara Bareilles
I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day. -- Ani DiFranco
Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive? -- FKA twigs
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, itâ??s understanding the necessity of both; itâ??s engaging. Itâ??s being all in. -- BrenÃ© Brown
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. -- BrenÃ© Brown
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. -- BrenÃ© Brown
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. -- BrenÃ© Brown
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. -- Ed Helms
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. -- Simon Sinek
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'. -- Hedi Slimane
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- A. J. McLean
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 -- Maya Banks
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. -- BrenÃ© Brown
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. -- Tony Curl
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown
My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability. -- Miranda Lambert
You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot. -- Victoria Pratt
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' -- Brene Brown
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems. -- Jurgen Habermas
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. -- Brene Brown
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Daryl Hannah
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. -- John Gerzema
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Brit Marling
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- George W. Bush
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. -- Stone Gossard
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. -- Mariella Frostrup
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Idina Menzel
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. -- Brene Brown
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. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
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. -- Yehuda Berg
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.' -- Ashton Kutcher
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. -- Gary Ross
He is my vulnerability -- Karen Marie Moning
Your vulnerability is your power. -- Daphne Zuniga
I'm fascinated by male vulnerability. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. -- Daphne Zuniga
It takes strength to show vulnerability. -- Miranda Lambert
Fear is vulnerability's ugly little sister. -- Jaime Murray
I do think vulnerability is a virtue. -- Raul Castillo
Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
There's a tangle between weakness and vulnerability. -- Andre Alexis
When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity -- Brene Brown
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability. -- Henri Nouwen
Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either. -- Malorie Blackman
You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability. -- Kendrick Lamar
Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain. -- Laura Ramirez
I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
When you're all in, you will know sweet vulnerability. -- John de Ruiter
Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability. -- Rita Volk
I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. -- John Rzeznik

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