#weakness

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#strength #strengthen #weakness

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#had #i #just #mind #only

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#god #graces #men #nurses #other

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#frailty #history #opinion #public #public opinion

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#forging #helpful #however #sometimes #style

A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#life #strength-and-courage #war-crimes #weakness #courage