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“A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”

Art Lying Values Art Is Weakness Clouds Grass Works Of Art Brotherhood Static Evanescence

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”

Way Needs Should I Can Use Used Lying Order Causes Responsibility Compassion Path Fate Seeing Weakness Weight Victim Harm Shoulders Lifts Can Not True Strength

Author:Patrik Baboumian

“Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.”

Lying Cases Painting Weakness Essence Centre Point Break

Author:Luc Tuymans

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Children Lying Song Felt Water Church Perfect Sea Weakness Difficulty Infinite Divides Helplessness Deliverance

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.”

Lying Realizing Keys Weakness Imperfection True Strength

Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.”

Lying Animal Weakness Stronger Illness Currents Floats Adrift Convalescence Possums

Author:Anais Nin

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.”

Ifs Men Hard Enough Lying Given Quality Youth Weakness Shining Drinking Credit Emptiness Host Frustrated Unfortunate Alcoholism Discreet

Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.”

Ifs Persons Use Pain Beautiful Lying Actors Stage Despair Weakness Negative Rings Performers Incompetence Gift From God Tents Something Beautiful Lying To Yourself Stop Lying

Author:Elizabeth Ashley

“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.”

Way Trying Wells Lying Suffering Next Wish Waiting Cutting Weakness Illness Sickness Perpetual Disgusting Woe Tire Discouraging Snares Get Well Manifold Ardor Respite Faltering

Book:Hadrian's Memoirs

Source: Hadrian's Memoirs

“A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.”

Lying Values Walks Information Models Weakness Assumption Adjustment Instantaneous Intrinsic Value

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.”

Humans May Lying Understanding Differences History Subjects Degrees Highest Weakness Lowest Roman Empire Dogmatic Obstinacy

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”

Lying Fall House Weakness Weight Structure Spread Tiny Vulnerability Cracks Strain

Author:Ovid

“If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.”

Ifs Lying Individual Weakness Down And Vulnerability Remarkable Invites Decline Invitations

Author:Barbara Mertz

“It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.”

World Giving Whole Lying Suffering Dies Causes Strength Crime This World Sorrow Giving Up Weakness Weak Misery Stealing Commit Miserable Delusion Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.”

Happens Would Be Lying Weakness

Author:Jayson Blair

“Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.”

Thinking Men Want Mind Wells Use Lying Understanding Weakness Faults Dues Improvement Faculty Complaints Defects

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

“Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation.”

People Use Lying Path Generations Genius Weakness Overcoming Surrender Divides Cover Ups

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

“I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.”

People Thinking Might Lying Weakness Burning Cheating Stakes Philandering Lying Cheating

Author:Warren Beatty

“When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate for your weaknesses and shore up your strengths.”

People Heart Lying Weakness Determined Shore Dedicated Wellbeing

Author:Kevin Allen

“I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.”

Years I Can Real Hands Happens Lying Communication Weakness Real Friends Strength And Weakness Who Your Real Friends Are

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius”

Done Lying Weakness Anger Endure Again And Again Irrationality Marius

Author:Anne Rice

“The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.”

Use Lying Sides Secret Battle Weakness Exploitation Secret To Success

Book:When the Tripods Came

Source: When the Tripods Came

“somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.”

Ifs Wells Heart Has Beens Facts Lying Hate Jesus Speak Pieces Trouble Cry Broken Perspective Habit Weakness Overcoming Patterns Surface Quitting Relief Overlooked Treasured Brokenhearted

Author:John Eldredge

“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

Knows Needs Believe Sometimes Helping Able Lying Culture Jesus Worship Weakness Bigger Supposed To Be Awe Stopping Floating

Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?”

Ifs Firsts Believe Kind Wanted Beautiful Lying Certain Return Weakness Noble Driven Impulse Beloved Loved Ones Alliances Kinds Of Love Love Lies Believe In Us

Author:Alain de Botton

“Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.”

Men May Problem Lying Hate Universe Evil Deals Situation Violence Weakness Ultimate Increase Murder Solve Liars Murderer Dishonesty Spirals Descending

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

Inspirational Giving Wisdom Lying Wise Positive Thinking Succeed Giving Up Weakness Perseverance Persistence Persist Never Giving Up Given Up Persevere Don't Give Up Student Success Great Success Rehabilitation Motivational Success Motivational Sales Achieved Success Determination Perseverance Never Surrender Never Give Up On Something Perseverance And Determination Determination And Persistence Failure Motivational Great Perseverance Great Determination Positive Thinking Success Just Give Up I Will Never Give Up Inspirational Career Achievement And Success Inspirational Positive Attitude Professional Career Great Sales Motivational Career Never Give Up Hope Motivational Job Sales People Way To Success Student Motivation I Will Not Give Up Never Give Up Motivational Career Motivation Trying To Succeed Short Never Give Up Student Motivational Motivational Keep Going Exam Motivational Positive Motivational Famous Never Give Up Feel Like Giving Up Positive Thinking Motivational Motivate Students

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.”

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

“The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.”

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.”

Source: An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion

“When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.”

Source: Ingersoll: Fifty Great Selections, Lectures, Tributes, After Dinner Speeches and Essays, Carefully Selected from the Twelve Volume Dresden Edition of Colonel Ingersoll's Complete Works

“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”

Giving Children War Self Dream Joy Lying Values Individual Pleasure Existence Marriage Findings Capable Weakness Asking Oneself Curse Warmth Deceptive Plenitude

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.”

Source: Daily Scripture Readings: In Three Volumes

“Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.”

Men Believe Home Eye Lying Fear Imagination Hell Adventure Arms Weakness Died Deceit Old Man Slaughter Censure Decor Paraphrase Home Home Mendacity

Author:Ezra Pound

“Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah”

Men Helping Lying Numbers Weakness Army Forsaken

Author:Khalid ibn al-Walid