We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!
All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our shared human frailties and be able, at least some of the time, to smile rather than grimace. Like most people, I must have started out with a comic worldview in my cupboard.
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?
Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho.
Utilitarianism is inherently pragmatic - in fact, I prefer to call it "deep pragmatism. " Humans have real limitations, obligations, and frailties, so the best policy is to set reasonable goals, given your limitations. Just try to be a little less tribalistic.
