#weak

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#eye #weakness #beauty

There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beautiful-people #curse #duck #duckling #endure

O, lack and doubt and fear can only come Because of plenty, confidence, and love! They are the shadow-forms about their feet, Because they are not perfect crystal-clear To the all-searching sun in which they live. Dread of its loss is Beauty’s certain seal! ↗

— George MacDonald

#virtue #weakness #beauty

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. ↗

— Stuart Sutherland

#weakness #change

But borrowing strength builds weakness. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#weakness #change

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#excuses #strong #weak #change

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

— Umberto Eco

#weakness #courage

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#the-west #united-nations #weakness #courage

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#insult #kindess #weakness #dating

Power was my weakness and my temptation. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#temptation #weakness #death