#weakness

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important. ↗

— Charlie Fletcher

#weakness #beauty

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. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#darkness #light #sympathy #weakness #art

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#his #just #know #shakespeare #start

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#first #first step #loss #our #repairing

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#affection #been #caught #class #considered

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. ↗

— William Penn

#gratify #must #never #thou #thy

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#defeat #except #failure #inherent #insurmountable

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

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