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• Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

  Caroline Myss

  Strength, Pain, Healing

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• The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

  Napoleon Hill

  Educational, Decision, Habit

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.110, Penguin

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• The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

  Chris Hedges

  Pain, Betrayal, Dark

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.30, Nation Books

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• America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

  Anthony Walton

  Motivational, Second Chance, America

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• Let me give you a hint, young ones, what it is you will become as you grow. What things make you cry, what things bring you pain, what things hurt you now, what things threaten your peace; what things you fear, what things bring you rage. It will be the opposite of these that you will become if you chose to accept your weakness, embrace the Son and simply grow.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Hurt, Pain, Son

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• The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Pieces, Flaws, Reason

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• Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Judging, Decision

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• It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Faces, Serious

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• You got to keep all your weaknesses away, and my weakness is women. I love women too much. Which has definitely road-blocked me. I just try my best to channel my energy to other things and remain focused while making my work as fun as everything else.

  Bow Wow

  Fun, Trying, Energy

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• We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

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• Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Talking with Rickie Lee Jones". Interview with The New Yorker,

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• Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

  Rick Warren

  Humility, Honest, Being Honest

  "Purpose Driven Life Author Rick Warren On Open House". Interview with Leigh Hatcher, hope1032.com.au. February 8, 2013.

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• God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Yield, Hands, Doe

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• No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Character, Errors, Humanity

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• The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

  John Milton

  Darkness, Martyr, Irresistible

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• Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

  Karl Marx

  Strong, Reform, Social

  Karl Marx (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48”

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• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Imperfection, Trying, Overcoming

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• The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Ego, Watches, Shortcomings

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• Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

  Francis of Assisi

  Soul, World, Body

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• Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Hopelessness, Born, Female Education

  "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.

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• Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

  Jeff Buckley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Reality

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• Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Lying, Misunderstood

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.18, Discovery House

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• He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

  Bjorn Borg

  Player, Feel Good, Opponents

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• ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Offering, Giving

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• Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Nature, Humans, Amiable

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.101

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