How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.
Tags: inspirational strength poetry sadness change courage dragons weakness attitude depression transformation helplessness fears
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
Haruki MurakamiTags: society philosophy weakness introspection
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.
Umberto EcoIt'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.
Tags: strength love weakness control
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?
Haruki MurakamiTags: human weakness flaw breeze cicadas
Power was my weakness and my temptation.
J.K. RowlingTags: power weakness temptation
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John WoodenTags: weakness criticism praise
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
José SaramagoAs one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
Jack LondonTags: suffering weak weakness hurt
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: mercy satire weakness pity
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