weakness

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6236c7d	Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.	prayer humanity religion god heart inspirational souls weakness	Mahatma Gandhi
ae08e0c	Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses	being-positive character inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking strength optimism life inspirational blessings blessing reputation authentic-living weakness focus	Roy T. Bennett
c38fe6b	How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us	courage depression poetry sadness change strength inspirational attitude weakness helplessness dragons fears transformation	Rainer Maria Rilke
dba571c	Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.	scepticism weakness zombie	Max Brooks
48f9b31	In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.	work god weakness humility	Madeleine L'Engle
6308393	The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.	bad-intentions spot validity criticism kindness inspirational good-intentions necessary intentions envy purity weakness sincerity motives	Criss Jami
3f42dbc	Power was my weakness and my temptation.	temptation weakness	J.K. Rowling
df03f2e	I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.	reason ardor changed-mind dispute open-mind argument force weakness victory pride pleasure	Michel de Montaigne
94d3c94	I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world...over time...little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.	philosophy weakness society	Haruki Murakami
744d24b	As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.	suffering weak weakness	Jack London
a137c61	To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.	explanations weakness	Agatha Christie
f39b600	I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?	human cicadas flaw weakness	Haruki Murakami
e37674f	Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.	underdogs weakness	Malcolm Gladwell
baa0df1	You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.	weakness	Mercedes Lackey
6d8208a	"It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76" --	weakness helplessness	Milan Kundera
db22daf	Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.	sympathy light darkness weakness	Jeanette Winterson
f1d300d	That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.	victim weakness vulnerability	Dennis Lehane
4ba4aaf	Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.	reality strength weakness	Gene Wolfe
c7e9594	I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.	weakness	Lisa Kleypas
877ded0	Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love-because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.	prayer world heart life love courageous done pure lord weakness will children	Paulo Coelho
c4f692b	Never test another man by your own weakness.	weaknesses weakness test	Joseph Conrad
15825c9	They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.	weakness	Kate Atkinson
af31952	I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.	weakness	Umberto Eco
b8b3a7d	Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.	weakness satire pity	L.M. Montgomery
bbaedea	IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.	success weakness mistakes self-improvement self-help	Napoleon Hill
907613a	The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.	forest weakness jungle	Tahir Shah
4516900	Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.	nature strength weakness	Henry David Thoreau
031d58f	"Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help. Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises. And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home. It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure. He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information.	disintegration kryptonite superman weakness	David Mamet
0ff6cd6	The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.	survivalism softness luxury weakness paradise	Frank Herbert
5c0b2ea	Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.	men weakness	Simone de Beauvoir
a866b9b	A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.	weakness	Barbara Ehrenreich
945679f	But borrowing strength builds weakness.	weakness	Stephen R. Covey
d78da70	This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.	lovers romance strength love love-that-lasts philosophy-of-love finding-strength-in-love weakness human-nature	Salman Rushdie
68fc753	"You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic--" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted."	strength brandon mull weakness prophecy	Brandon Mull
771e646	You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.	strength weakness power	Wallace Stegner
a45934e	Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.	prayer faith doubts weakness humility	Flannery O'Connor
8c0a5d8	I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.	strength weakness	Terry Pratchett
d3c8fba	The search for God begins at the point of need.	weakness	Catherine Marshall
b25fff7	Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner...	stereotypes men women sinner weakness sin	Anne Brontë
54141c7	"Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You."	weakness	Julie Garwood
00b158e	Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.	pain heavy fragile weakness fragility	George Saunders
4b52a02	I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.	lies love weakness mistakes	Agatha Christie
4cdbbe6	I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.	heartbreak unworthiness weakness	Anne Brontë
aefd29f	"Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")"	war strength cynical soldier perfidy world-war-ii ww-ii weakness noir home cynicism loyalty ptsd	Cornell Woolrich
e996c45	There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.	sexual-love tolerating weakness paul	Michel Faber
6d43345	What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.	life weakness	Sharon Creech
a71c2fd	When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One	weakness poison	Frances Hodgson Burnett
d8dfd27	The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.	weakness	Robin Wasserman
30f52da	It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.	strength falling-apart weakness	Jodi Picoult
9817e01	He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.	strength weakness	Tanya Huff
ae414b2	And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?	humanity fear human-frailty weakness sin	Umberto Eco
1805996	She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.	human beauty authoritarian kitsch human-condition reveal weakness lie power	Milan Kundera
f35489f	"That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")"	man men weakness	Cornell Woolrich
5d16a55	We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.	limitation sovereignty-of-god ministry weakness	Watchman Nee
de61940	I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.	relationships life love montréal pg-76 thirteen canada bad weakness	Heather O'Neill
5aa6915	Don't you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.	strength care hope elder weakness eldest decisions expectations	Beth Revis
c55b215	Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing it was not the Hotel Hyperion, that the circumstances were quite different, he felt loneliness spring up like a dark forest all around him. The odd thing was, he felt no impulse to hurry after her, to find her somehow. What would he have to offer her except the history of weakness, loneliness, and inadequacy, the decline and fall of himself? He himself was the core of the loneliness around him, and its core was inadequacy. He was inadequate even in love.	loneliness history dark love offer inadequacy hurry forest fall weakness direction impulse decline	Patricia Highsmith
640d6f6	Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.	strength life inspirational weakness	Shūsaku Endō
91ff8bc	It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.	fear life inconfidence rationalism weakness emotions decisions safety	George Eliot
5b04979	It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.	woman women could-not-bear for-good own-good disappoint weakness	Larry McMurtry
b4f6bfd	She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.	women strength security weakness	Gabriel García Márquez
6438b85	"(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for his own experience."	grief trials weakness	Elton Trueblood
39b7757	Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.	women humor weakness	Laurie R. King
cd048ca	This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.	dust nothing emptiness space weakness despair	Gustave Flaubert
454fc1d	As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.	illness weakness dying	Edward P. Jones
0994804	It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.	wisdom weakness study	Jacqueline Carey
a0279f8	It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.	weakness king	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
3772222	If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it's an admission of weakness, they draw away from it... and that's why you kill the thing you love, because it's your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will your weakness before it kills you.	weakness	William Gaddis
f325cfb	Because not all weakness has to be weakness	the-lord-of-the-west-march weakness	Michelle Sagara

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses

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Roy T. Bennett

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

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Max Brooks

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In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

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Criss Jami

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Power was my weakness and my temptation.

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J.K. Rowling

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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

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Michel de Montaigne

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I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world...over time...little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.

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Haruki Murakami

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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

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Jack London

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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

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Agatha Christie

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I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

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Haruki Murakami

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Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

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Malcolm Gladwell

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You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

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Mercedes Lackey

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"It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76" --

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Milan Kundera

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Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

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Jeanette Winterson

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That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.

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Dennis Lehane

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Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

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Gene Wolfe

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I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

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Lisa Kleypas

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Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love-because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

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Paulo Coelho

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Never test another man by your own weakness.

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Joseph Conrad

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They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

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Kate Atkinson

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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

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Umberto Eco

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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

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L.M. Montgomery

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IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

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Napoleon Hill

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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

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Tahir Shah

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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

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Henry David Thoreau

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"Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help. Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises. And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home. It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure. He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information.

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David Mamet

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The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

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Frank Herbert

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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

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But borrowing strength builds weakness.

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Stephen R. Covey

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This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.

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Salman Rushdie

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"You're free to dream however you wish," Nollin teased. "But don't ask the rest of us to share your unrealistic--" "Then don't ask us to share your weakness!" Jason interrupted."

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Brandon Mull

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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

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Wallace Stegner

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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

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Flannery O'Connor

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I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

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Terry Pratchett

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The search for God begins at the point of need.

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Catherine Marshall

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Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner...

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Anne Brontë

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"Every man has a weakness," he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You."

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Julie Garwood

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Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

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George Saunders

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

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Agatha Christie

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I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.

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Anne Brontë

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"Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come back to in the intervals between a greater love - the only real love - the lust for riches buried in the earth, that are your own if you can find them. Perhaps you do not call it home, even to yourself. Perhaps you call them 'my house,' 'my woman,' What if there was another 'my house,' 'my woman,' before this one? It makes no difference. This woman is enough for now. Perhaps the guns sounded too loud at Anzio or at Omaha Beach, at Guadalcanal or at Okinawa. Perhaps when they stilled again some kind of strength had been blasted from you that other men still have. And then again perhaps it was some kind of weakness that other men still have. What is strength, what is weakness, what is loyalty, what is perfidy? The guns taught only one thing, but they taught it well: of what consequence is life? Of what consequence is a man? And, therefore, of what consequence if he tramples love in one place and goes to find it in the next? The little moment that he has, let him be at peace, far from the guns and all that remind him of them. So the man who once was Bill Taylor has come back to his house, in the dusk, in the mountains, in Anahuac. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")"

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Cornell Woolrich

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There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

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Michel Faber

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What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

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Sharon Creech

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When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.

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Robin Wasserman

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It is a curious thing, watching a strong man fall to pieces.

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Jodi Picoult

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He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

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Tanya Huff

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And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

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Umberto Eco

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She knew only too well that the song was a beautiful lie. As soon as kitsch is recognized for the lie it is, it moves into the context of non-kitsch, thus losing its authoritarian power and becoming as touching as any other human weakness. For none among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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Milan Kundera

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"That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")"

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Cornell Woolrich

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We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

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Watchman Nee

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I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.

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Heather O'Neill

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Don't you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.

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Beth Revis

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Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee of the Hotel Hyperion, while he decided what direction to take, what to do. And suddenly, realizing it was not the Hotel Hyperion, that the circumstances were quite different, he felt loneliness spring up like a dark forest all around him. The odd thing was, he felt no impulse to hurry after her, to find her somehow. What would he have to offer her except the history of weakness, loneliness, and inadequacy, the decline and fall of himself? He himself was the core of the loneliness around him, and its core was inadequacy. He was inadequate even in love.

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Patricia Highsmith

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Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are weak by nature. There are even some who cry easily. But for such a man, a man both weak and cowardly, to bear the burden of his weakness and struggle valiantly to live a beautiful life-- that's what I call great. The reason I'm so fond of Gaston is not because he has a strong will or a good head. Rather it's because, weakling and coward that he is, he keeps on fighting in his own way.

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Shūsaku Endō

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It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

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George Eliot

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It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

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Larry McMurtry

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She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.

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Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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"(The death of his child) "was the first experience of his life, so far as we know, which drove him to look outside of his own mind and heart for help to endure a personal grief. It was the first time in his life when he had not been sufficient for his own experience."

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Elton Trueblood

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Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

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Laurie R. King

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This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.

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Gustave Flaubert

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As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.

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Edward P. Jones

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It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

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Jacqueline Carey

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It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it's an admission of weakness, they draw away from it... and that's why you kill the thing you love, because it's your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will your weakness before it kills you.

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William Gaddis

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Because not all weakness has to be weakness

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