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“Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.”

Believe Facts I Believe Globalization Facts Of Life Underestimated Fragility Connecting The World

Book:We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

“Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.”

Needs Self Christian Realizing Christianity Struggle Virtue Generations Honesty Endless Authenticity Revelations Sincerity My Generation Fragility Chic Coolness Self Revelation

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.”

World Humans Kind Human Beings Ability Openness Uncertain Fragility Good Human Being

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.”

Thinking Humans Body Photographer Flesh Decay Fragility

Author:David LaChapelle

“In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.”

Knows Believe Art Seems Process Pleasure Secret Struggle Blood Painting Tradition Flesh Manage Decay Doomed Ongoing Medieval Evoke Rust Fragility

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us”

Care Imagine Ego Fragility Insidious

Book:Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

Source: Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live

“God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.”

Doe God Christian Religion Christianity Power Strength Baby Weakness Catholic Revealing Bishops Babe Newborn Fragility

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

Easy Simple Virtue Survival Strategy Evolve Code Fragile Elegant Equilibrium Fragility Artifacts

Author:Brian Foote

“In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us". He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: "the atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth's radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon." After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer.”

“A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.”

“I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Long Body Lasts Strong Healthy Shapes Long Time Weakness Built Aim Storm Your Body Firm Thrive Inability Athletic Skinny Long Time Ago Fragility Stand Firm

Author:Lauren Fleshman

“Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.”

Life Is Pieces Shapes Waste Breaths Life And Death Mortality Fragile Rapper Life Is Short Life Is Too Short Brevity Fragility Wasted Life Brevity Of Life

Author:LeCrae

“Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.”

Way Needs Order Accounts Live Life Flood Exclusion Fragility Bank Accounts

Book:The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

Source: The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

“Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?”

Moments Life Is Our Lives Shadow Realms Meditating Brevity Fragility Vanishing Moments In Our Lives Vanishing Point

Author:Andre Comte-Sponville

“If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open.' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts.”

“In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.”

Way Want Strong Cases Clear Plans Sweet Tomorrow Adults Symbols Bus Fierce Flawed Fragility Snowflake Way In Life

Author:Stella Young

“I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.”

“Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a fight, so I never went into a race with a sense of invincibility. I always had that feeling of fragility and nerves which made me run faster.”

Giving Made Feelings Running Fighting My Own Race Hell Weakness Give Me Miles Faster Ran Opponents Nerves Fragility Invincibility

Author:Roger Bannister

“An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.”

Beauty Essentials Appearance Delicacy Fragility

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.”

Men Feels Young Childhood Youth Mortals Young Man Thirty Fragility

Book:Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H

Source: Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H

“White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.”

Mean White Passages Fragility Passage Of Time

Author:Martin Margiela

“Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.”

Humans Growing Wall Army Grass Attachment March Blades Fragility Blades Of Grass Barbarity Grass Growing

Author:Mahmoud Darwish