#weakness

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #strength #weakness #nature

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#weakness #state

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#success #weakness #growth

People with weaknesses get killed by the people who lack them. Notice I'm not dead. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#kerrigan #weakness #dead

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. ↗

— Jack London

#suffering #weak #weakness #london

That which yields is not always weak. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#flexibility #weakness

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#weakness

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#georgina-kincaid #richelle-mead #succubus-blues #weakness

It doesn't hurt." "But my eyes do," said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn't heard him; closing the door behind him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon's shirt down. "Molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, Iz?" he asked. "I'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the Accords." "I'm just showing him where he got stabbed," Isabelle protested, but she scooted back to her chair with a certain amount of haste. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #quip #simon-lewis #weakness

You gain power by pretending to be weak. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#power #weak #weakness