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“I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.”

“The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.”

“I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.”

Ifs Love Persons Reason Purpose Given Chance Our Lives Trouble Shapes Fingers Affection Worthy Vulnerable Excellent Love Life Suspects Terrified Needy Crossroads

Author:Kevin Hearne

“The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.”

Humans Turns Influence Planets Ocean Impact Rate Currents Vulnerable Atmosphere Realms Excess Carbon Human History Temperature Melting Stunning Arctic Icy Carbon Dioxide Ocean Currents

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.”

Sometimes Matter Loses Loss Investment Passionate Clever Vulnerable

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.”

“When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.”

Humans Self Choices Individual Poor Levels Capacity Dignity Deny Vulnerable Denial Collectives Human Dignity Self-denial Poor And Vulnerable

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.”

Can Do Vulnerable Attractive Allowing Attractive Things

Author:Rick Owens

“You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.”

Way Heart Done Shows Spirit Broken Honestly Vulnerable Rough Compassionate Fierce Ragged

Author:Jack Kornfield

“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!”

Ifs Giving Children Birth Priorities Invisible Vulnerable Visible Registration

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.”

Social Justice Poor Concern Vulnerable Generosity Poor And Vulnerable

Book:Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

“Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.”

People Feels Heart Dream Negative Careful Stealing Vulnerable Be Careful Associates Negative People

Book:Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.”

May Helping Prayer Respect Vulnerable March Trust In God Commitment To God Confidence In God Servant Of God God Help Mighty God God Help Me God Help Us Respect Life

Author:Pope Francis

“The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.”

Children Suffering Humanity Conflict Shame Vulnerable Humankind Disabled

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.”

Giving Joy Dangerous Giving Up Vulnerable Vulnerability Belonging Giving Up On Love

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.”

Kind Vulnerable Prisoner Prey

Book:Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty

Source: Breaking Free Day by Day: A Year of Walking in Liberty

“The Christian life is not about finding safety and comfort; it’s about finding yourself in a dangerous place of vulnerable compassion.”

Christian Life Is Compassion Dangerous Comfort Findings Safety Christian Life Vulnerable Finding Yourself Dangerous Places

Author:Ed Stetzer

“When your heart is open and soft, it isn't actually vulnerable: it can withstand anything.”

Heart Vulnerable

Author:John de Ruiter

“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”

Ifs Fall Vulnerable Cracks

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.”

Should Wells Country Care Greatness Population Vulnerable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Doe Personality Vulnerable Vulnerability Hermione

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.”

Mean Speak Interest Animal Position Higher Authority Abuse Victim Injustice Cruelty Vulnerable Powerless Behalf Representing Speaks Out Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.”

Vulnerable Robots

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.”

Important Vulnerable Fearless

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.”

World Life Needs Giving Moments Inspiration Certain Chance Millions Alive Cry This World Amount Praying Creatures Letting Go Ocean Breathe Vulnerable Reach Out Roof Euphoria

Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.”

Children Breathe Vulnerable Fragile Small Child

Book:Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity

Source: Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity

“The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members”

Found Members Treats Vulnerable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.”

Ifs Feels Weak Scared Vulnerable

Book:The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections

“I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.”

“Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart.”

Heart Vulnerable Coldness

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent.”

Enough Care Stage Baby Development Vulnerable Excellent Infancy Stages Of Development Infancy Is

Author:Magda Gerber

“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.”

Form Seasons Vulnerable Internals Transition Crucial Cosmic Sympathetic Seasons Change Redirection

Book:Path of Practice: Ayurvedic Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound

Source: Path of Practice: Ayurvedic Book of Healing with Food, Breath and Sound

“We won't win every battle. We won't save every child. But together we can be the standard bearers of human dignity by being present in humility and in solidarity with the world's most vulnerable individuals, families and communities.”

World Humans Children Together Winning Individual Community Humility Battle Standards Dignity Vulnerable Solidarity Human Dignity Together We Can

Author:Joia Mukherjee

“Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows”

Window Vulnerable Microsoft Macs

Author:Lance Ulanoff

“Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.”

People Trying Humans Reason Moving Actors Acting Laughing Entertainment Vulnerable Hopefully Behaviour Surgery Always Trying Transport Human Behaviour

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.”

Vulnerable Guts

Author:Lana Parrilla

“In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.”

Ifs Lost Felt Common Brain Skins Vulnerable Injury Layers Protective Brain Injury

Author:Maryam d'Abo

“I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.”

People Done Problem Film Can Do Practicals Vulnerable Fragile Exposed

Author:Lena Olin

“When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.”

Love You Vulnerable Insecurity

Author:Laz Alonso

“To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.”

Grows Accepting Growing Up Alive Vulnerable Maturity Vulnerability Criminal Mind

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.”

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart.... The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.”

“When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.”

Thinking Children War Kids Behinds Imagine Safe Finished Vulnerable Beach Shooting Behind You Cowardly Blowing Up Snipers Landmines Minefields

Author:Paul McCartney

“With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.”

Mind Children Might Religion Easy Effort Brain Wonder Adults Patient Wide Vulnerable Suggestions Brushes Prey Immune Nun Infection Gullible Subversion

Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.”

Children Littles Hurt Vulnerable Hurtful

Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.”

“We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible”

Process Economy Too Much Painful Vulnerable

Author:Mark Rutte

“If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.”

Ifs Jobs Identity Vulnerable

Book:No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

Source: No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work

“Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.”

Source: Legitimacy in the Modern State

“Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.”

Writing Literature Wish Sex Vulnerable Ethnicity

Author:Jim Harrison

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