Quotes About Vulnerability

I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes—people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

Sometimes it takes more courage to ask for help than to act alone.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.