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.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTag: weakness cowardice united-nations the-west
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
Frank TallisTag: morality beauty weakness vanity
Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.
Life isn't like that.
Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?
Tag: life weakness heroism failure failing
I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.
Agatha ChristieTag: love acceptance lies mistakes weakness
The body is not a task to be completed but a gift we receive from God himself.
Matthew Lee AndersonTag: weakness grace-of-god
Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.
Evinda LepinsTag: truth strong weak weakness complaining weakness-quotes strong-quotes strongest
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTag: weakness
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Brené BrownTag: truth courage weakness vulnerability
Hatred makes you weak where else love makes you vulnerable. There's a difference.
Girl234Tag: love hatred weak weakness vulnerability vulnerable
She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.
Dean KoontzTag: empathy weakness predators lack-of-empathy
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