#frailty

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— John Dryden

#love #mind #noblest

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#glimpses #human #human strength #me #physician

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises. ↗

— Gabrielle Giffords

#frailty #limitations #pride #weakness #courage

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humanity #humility #leadership #power #leadership

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#love #love

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism