Quotes About Vulnerability

Bien sûr, des inconnus peuvent vous faire du mal. Mais les gens que vous aimez font ça tellement mieux...

What's it going to take for you to trust me?" "You're an addict. You really have to ask that?

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

All attack is a call for help.

The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.