Power Of Vulnerability Quotes

#1. I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Mary Lambert

#2. I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

Rineke Dijkstra

#3. The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

Rachel Cusk

#4. We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.

Bell Hooks

#5. America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Oriana Fallaci

#6. We, the human beings, are meant to live life to its fullest. We are meant to experience it all - sadness, disappointment, rage, kindness, joy, love. We are meant to test ourselves. It is painful and frightening, but this is what it means to be alive.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.

Lucy H. Pearce

#8. We are too frightened of shadows. We cannot abide our vulnerability, our utter dependence upon a world that can eat us. Vast in its analytic and inventive power, modern humanity is crippled by a fear of its own animality, and of the animate earth that sustains us.

David Abram

#9. For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Robert M. Hutchins

#10. We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#11. Vulnerability is power.

Saul Williams

#12. She did have one other fear, though: missing the call of God.

Ron Hall

#13. There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Idina Menzel

#14. People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#15. What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Meghan O'Rourke

#16. THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE EXTRAORDINARY DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND OUR SHARED HUMAN CONDITION, IN ALL ITS VULNERABILITY AND STRENGTH.

Irina Bokova

#17. Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession

Janny Scott

#18. Good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

James Tiptree Jr.

#19. We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

John Ortberg Jr.

#20. Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

Ann Cotton

#21. The day I met a friendly ghost was the day I came up with better analogies.

Karina Halle

#22. Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

Henry David Thoreau

#23. God doesn't ask us to be successful, only faithful.[7]

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#24. One of the greatest lies ever told is that there's no power in vulnerability.

Dianna Hardy

#25. Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#26. I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.

Lorraine Heath

#27. Your vulnerability is your power.

Daphne Zuniga

#28. I think one's relationship with one's vulnerability is a very delicate and precious relationship. Most people try to hide, disguise that vulnerability, and in doing that, you, I think, diminish a great source of power.

Philip Schultz

#29. Nothing." That word held so much power: the power to deny someone your true feelings in a moment of vulnerability.

R.S. Grey

#30. People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

David Guterson

#31. Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt
her or pleasure her in a way no other man
could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

Maya Banks

#32. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder