“I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.” IfsChanceWeaknessBlameGood WorkImpotence Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters
“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingShouldHas BeensMovingGamesChanceToo MuchFateHeardSacrificeBuildingReadyTerribleDiseasePicksWeaknessLuckActiveChessChances ArePawnsConfidence And Strength Book:Face Source: Face
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility does occur, its chances of prevailing are slim. Yet it exists, and its mere existence is reason enough for not wiping the name of mankind off the slate.” HumansDoeReasonEnoughEvilNamesChanceExistenceMankindHuman NatureWeaknessUltimateMereHuman ConditionCowardiceNobilityPrevailingConstituentsSlateSlim Author:John Simon
“Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.” ShouldHumansKindSoulWould BeChanceExistenceMoralChristianityPovertyMankindBuddhismIntellectualWeaknessRootsMajoritySpeciesForgottenPatternsBlowSavingCertaintyFollyPrimitiveUnfairHuman ExistenceCivil SocietyCelibacyGeneralitiesGlorificationDivergenceBuddhism And Christianity Author:James G. Frazer
“In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.” ThinkingGrowsGrowthChallengesChanceWeaknessExcitingMindsetWowThreateningGrowth Mindset Author:Carol S. Dweck