#weakness

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You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.


Jodi Picoult


#life

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.


Leon Trotsky


#life #misery #weakness #life

Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help. Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises. And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home. It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure. He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information. [...] Far from being invulnerable, Superman is the most vulnerable of beings, because his childhood was destroyed. He can never reintegrate himself by returning to that home- it is gone. It is gone and he is living among aliens to whom he cannot even reveal his rightful name.


David Mamet


#disintegration #kryptonite #superman #weakness #death

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.


Patrick Ness


#love #strength #weakness #love

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.


Max Brooks


#scepticism #weakness #zombie #nature

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


Henry David Thoreau


#nature #strength #weakness #nature

And inasmuch as they erred it might be made known; And inasmuch as they sought wisdom they might be instructed; And inasmuch as they sinned they might be chastened, that they might repent; And inasmuch as they were humble they might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time.


Doctrine and Covenants


#religion #weakness #wisdom #religion

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