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“Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.”

“Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.”

Feels Heart Play Youth Scene Weakness Deserve Stones Sight Praise Touching

Book:Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...

Source: Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...

“Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.”

Feels Politics Power Weakness Arrogant

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.”

Feels Force Weakness Weak Imperialism Resorts Brutes Brute Force

Author:Hugo Chavez

“Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.”

Feels Laughing Weakness Vanity Vain Touched Forgiven Chords Responding

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains!”

Knows Feels Seems Moving Loses Doubt Grace Mountain Weakness Shadow Bigger Massive Odds Overwhelmed Intimidation Stand Alone Be Confident Move Mountains Who God Is Odds Against You

Author:Graham Cooke

“I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.”

Knows Way Feels Different Real Stories Shows Feelings Hands Happens Care Opportunity Voice Strange Weakness Responsible Different Ways Ownership I Care

Author:Lauren Graham

“Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.”

Feels Law Energy Principles Humility Duty Weakness Motive Strongest Balanced Symptoms Prudence Reserved Supplements Deliberation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”

Men Feels Heart Passion Study Sadness Despair Weakness Depth Arise Emptiness Nothingness Dependence Gloom Weariness Diversion Vexation Insufferable Insufficiency

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.”

Knows Men Feels Heart Teach Weakness Experience Breasts

Book:The Poems

Source: The Poems

“We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.”

Thinking Feels Dies Break Seeing Spring Weakness Stronger Immortality Mortality Warning Breaking Down

Book:The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

“The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.”

Giving Feels Spirit Cold Hero Giving Up Weakness Finals Refuse Setting Settings Islands Isolated Odds Coast Heroines Maine Feisty

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.”

People Want Feels Humans Kind I Can Real Human Beings Mistake Blood Weakness Hollywood Edges Flesh Making Mistakes Rough Flawed Flesh And Blood We All Make Mistakes Rough Edges

Author:Lynn Shelton

“When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.”

World Feels Eye Turns Fall Opinion Doubt Ignorance Weakness Inward

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.”

Knows Feels Strong Felt Weakness Weak

Author:Mason Cooley

“It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.”

Thinking Knows Feels Believe Littles Long Character Facts Values Doubt Serious Safe Weakness Deserve Prosperity Commit Contribution Abundance Flood Delivering Sabotage Bounty

Author:Steve Pavlina

“I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.”

Feels Suffering Sex My Own Love Is Moral Weakness Overcoming Terror Temptation Admiration Excess Tenderness

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.”

Feels Use Hands Age Death Humility Weakness Trials Impression Proportion Rough Lively Infirmity

Author:Francois Fenelon

“As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.”

Feels Long Helping Weakness Helplessness

Book:Sayings and Portraits of John Wesley

Source: Sayings and Portraits of John Wesley

“Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Mean Able Stuff Cry Weakness

Author:Grace Jones

“I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.”

Thinking Feels Said Moments Prove Weakness Hungry Organize Affliction Insecure Standing Out Strength And Weakness

Author:Edward Norton

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.”

Ifs Feels Looks Matter Hard Play Hard Work Weakness No Matter What Feel Good Substitutes Good Work Shortcuts Strength And Weakness

Author:Hope Solo

“For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.”

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.”

Knows Needs Feels Helping Age Church Love Is Known Weakness And Love Debt Dependence Heretic Infidel Disloyal Power And Love

Author:John Henry Newman

“Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.”

Thinking Knows Feels Done Body Action Faces Wind Weakness Nonsense Spiritual Wisdom Superstitions Spit

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.”

Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940

“Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable. It's like saying, "I'm an open book. Here are my flaws, my strengths, where I fall short, my dreams - and I'm choosing to share them with you."”

People Way Feels Book Dream Fall Grows Share Weakness Vulnerable Vulnerability Flaws Open Book

Author:Betsy Landin

“In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.”

Feels Writing Reason Lasts Song Morning Five Four Listening Singing Weakness Decided Guitar Patterns Albums Melody Afternoon Say Anything End Times Essays Chords Spend Time Doing Me

Author:Iggy Pop

“[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.”

Knows Feels Ideas Sometimes Matter Facts Science Simple Example Weakness Universal Extraordinary Significant Aliens Statistics Biographies Collecting

Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud

Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud

“Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.”

Feels Feelings Sadness Weakness Prison Sensitivity Exaggerated

Author:James Fox

“In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.”

Feels Ends States Decision United Enemy United States Approach Weakness Tendencies Compromise Recognition Colleagues Militant Reluctance Tacit

Author:William J. Duiker

“Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.”

People Feels Left Groups Weakness Iran Regimes Left Out Persian Kurds Over 50

Author:John Bolton

“What I feel the most confident about as a teacher, whatever my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I got to be around those people, I feel like that I have something to offer because of that blessing. Being around them a little bit... I'm not them. I'm certainly not trying to compare myself to them. But in lieu of them being able to impart something, the fact that I had so many people like that that were kind to me and talked to me was invaluable.”

People Feels Trying Kind Littles Facts Able Bits Teacher Blessing Offers Little Bit Weakness Compare Impart Invaluable Strength And Weakness

Author:Jon Gordon

“I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.”

Thinking Feels Certain Belief Ability Weakness Disability

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

Knows Love Inspirational Feels Shows Spirit Possibility Anxiety Weakness True Love Disability True Friend Friendship Day Breathtaking Happy Friendship Happy Friendship Day Sunny Disposition

Author:William Arthur Ward

“Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.”

Feels Weakness Crosses Ugly Seeds Jealousy Unlovable Woundedness Bad Seed

Book:Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.”

Source: Canto general: a song of the people

“Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.”

World Needs Feels Doe Hard Earth Pain Past Suffering Poor Gone Seeing Trouble This World Wind Conflict Weakness Calm Yesterday Mortals Funeral Anguish Frost Emily Pavement

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.”

Way Feels Should Important Community Ability Share Strange Creatures Weakness Fellows Wounds Arise Affected Wounded Compelled Woundedness

Author:M. Scott Peck

“God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.”

“It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”

“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Feels Sin Knowledge Knowing Virtue Trouble Ought Blessing Intellectual Weakness Guilt Instinct Following Deeper Intellect Guilty Bless Followers Justification

Author:Ayn Rand

“And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.”

People Thinking World Feels Made Sometimes Lost Decision Secret Wonder Doors Weakness Neglect Sensations Numb Saddest Decisions Made

Book:Life After God

Source: Life After God

“it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Helping Home Seems Beautiful Known Weakness Ancient Appreciation Beautiful Things Sculpture Items Archangel Vases Montgomery

Book:Archangel's Consort

Source: Archangel's Consort

“To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.”

Knows Feels Asks Decision Arms Weakness Areas Tools Statements Decision Making Intimidated Procrastinating Lack Of Education

Book:Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret

Source: Before You Do: Making Great Decisions That You Won't Regret

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.”

Feels Sound Courage Comfortable Empathy Weakness Parenting Vulnerability Daring Greatly

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Justice Opinion Sorrow Diversity Weakness Tasks Social Justice Endless Variety Charm Prevailing Meanness

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace."”

Life Feels Should Sin Levels Healing Grace Failure Higher Sorrow Weakness Disappointment Trials Lifts Bless Abandoned New Beginnings Grace Of God Higher Level

Author:James E. Faust