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  • We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

  • Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.

  • She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face. It looked stripped down, oddly vulnerable. "Unpleasant?" he finishes for her. "Only at days when my adoptive mother tosses me out of the house with instructions never to darken her door again. Usually I'm remarkably good-natured. Try me on any day that doesn't end in y.

    Mother   Doors   House  
    Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.461, Simon and Schuster
  • I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.

    Ego   Hurtful   May  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • All humans are part male and part female. The other side must be explored to gain complete understanding ofourselves and the world we live in. Forme, the idea of having a feminine perspective is a willingness to be vulnerable.

  • The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

    Heart   Path   Vulnerable  
  • I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

    Mom   Children   Self  
  • So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.

  • Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

    Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

  • I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.

    Interview with Stella Papamichael, www.bbc.co.uk. June 16, 2003.
  • Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.

  • 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.

    Lonely   Hurt   Pain  
    Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK
  • As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

    Moon   Self   Long  
  • Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I definitely feel like if I put out a song that was like me being super vulnerable, people would look as me as weak. I don't know if that has to do with me being a girl, or if that really has to do with anything, but I'm sure.

    Girl   Song   People  
    "Interview: Melanie Martinez on her debut album, 'Cry Baby'". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.
  • Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

  • The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.

  • 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.

    Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.
  • Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

    "The Mindy Project’s Xosha Roquemore: Just Being Herself". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

    Reality   Darkness   Way  
    Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton
  • A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

    Children   Ideas   May  
    FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012
  • Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

    M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House
  • 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 your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

    Fire   Abiding   Poison  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.286, Penguin UK
  • Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

    Thinking   Hands   Iron  
    Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

    Sea   Sky   Perfect  
    Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan
  • Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

    "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.
  • Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

    Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.
  • Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

  • If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

    "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.
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