Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"
Vulnerable quotes
Vulnerable
317 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"To love at all is to be vulnerable."
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"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."
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"It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable."
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"Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards."
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"One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable."
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"I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen."
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"I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen."
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"When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled."
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"They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them."
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"If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable."
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"They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality."
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"Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy."
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"Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility."
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"If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable."
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"It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward."
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"Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable."
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"Not having all the information can make me feel vulnerable."
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"You're inviting hysteria with your boobs that are nearly showing nipple and your skirt that's nearly showing muff. You're exciting this hysteria that leads to a lack of control, which then leads to, "It wasn't my fault." But naked, I have all the power because I got there before you did, and what is actually there is vulnerable, life-giving and hasn't been tampered with."
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"I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid."
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"I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare."
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"I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage."
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