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The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

The mystical non-sense of afterlife indeed gives solace to the mind in times of weakness, but why should the mind let its weakness be the fuel for primitiveness in the first place!

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. - Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

Then he launches himself at me with a roar, and I let him take his shot. It’s weak, like he is. Like all bullies really are. That’s why they’re bullies. Because they’re insecure idiots who try to make themselves feel better.

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

There are people who will set out into this world to tell lies about you, and use their own reckless judgment in attempts to belittle you to as many people as possible. They’ll search for the one’s that will listen, the one’s they feel are weak, and can’t think for themselves. When encountering these types of people, that don’t have good to say about anyone, remember your turn for this reckless judgment could be next.

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

There is no such a thing as being weak minded by nature. No one can ever be weak minded without the constant presence of negative thoughts and beliefs in one's mind.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

There is so little backbone within the Republican Party that I think they should just take the next logical step and join Cirque du Soleil.

There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first have all the necessary credentials needed for the job.

The ultimate weakenss of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is .

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

The Weak Point Dealer is an ideal man fighting his inner himself who is drowned by the outer himself, desperate to deal with the weak points. The man who is wildly in love with what he wants and madly hates for what he has to wait for.

The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.

The weak thrive on indulgence.

The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another...

The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.

The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.

The weak-willed gratified themselves with needless displays of power.

The weak will try to convince you that weakness is strength.

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.

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other’s weaknesses.

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.

This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens toward permanence when we fall in love with each other’s weaknesses.

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.

Those who are weak in spirit, desire to make others weaker. While the strong spirit, desire to empower others to be stronger.

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation.

Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

To accept our tinyness in the universe is not a weakness; on the contrary it is whipping ourselves to get rid of this tinyness!

Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.

To be weak.' 'Excuse me?' 'That is his deepest fear. To be, in essence, without power.

To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pride which blame stirs to resentment, but altogether of the self-depreciation which disapproval rouses to yet greater dispiriting. Praise was to her a precious thing, in part because it made her feel as if she could go on; blame, a misery, in part because it made her feel as if all was of no use, she never could do anything right. She had not yet learned that the right is the right, come of praise or blame what may. The right will produce more right and be its own reward--in the end a reward altogether infinite, for God will meet it with what is deeper than all right, namely, perfect love.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people" ~ Aung Sun Suu Kyi

To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by you; if you are a weak person, mostly others will write your life story!

To live in the shadow of another person...to desire to be adored as that person is....is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses.

True lament isn't an expression of weakness, whining or self-pity. It's an authentic expression of faith.

...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’ to seek from him who is our life, as the natural, simple cure of all that is amiss with us, power to do, and be, and live, even when we are weary,—this is the victory that overcometh the world. To believe in God our strength in the face of all seeming denial, to believe in him out of the heart of weakness and unbelief, in spite of numbness and weariness and lethargy; to believe in the wide-awake real, through all the stupefying, enervating, distorting dream; to will to wake, when the very being seems athirst for a godless repose;—these are the broken steps up to the high fields where repose is but a form of strength, strength but a form of joy, joy but a form of love. ‘I am weak,’ says the true soul, ‘but not so weak that I would not be strong; not so sleepy that I would not see the sun rise; not so lame but that I would walk! Thanks be to him who perfects strength in weakness, and gives to his beloved while they sleep!