#weakness

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

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

Power was my weakness and my temptation. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#temptation #weakness #death

It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#power #weakness #death

All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#education

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists. ↗

— Aimee Carter

#love #weakness #equality

Sanity is for the weak ↗

— Uke family motto

#motto #sanity #weak #weakness #family