Quotes About Vulnerability

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.

Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!

You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power.

Having a weakness is nothing to be ashamed of. If anything~ knowing what your weakness is makes you very powerful indeed.

I am a small business owner I'm in the agri-business. That's about as blind a trust as you can get. We trust in the Lord for rain and many other things.

It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.