Quotations

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.” 

Shūsaku Endō (Japanese author who wrote from the rare perspective of a Japanese Roman Catholic)

“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.” 

Criss Jami (Criss Jami is the lead singer of the rock band Venus in Arms based in Washington, D.C. He is also a poet, essayist and existentialist philosopher)

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.” 

Jodi Picoult (An American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003) 

“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”

Paul Theroux (American travel writer and novelist)

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

Brené Brown (American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston)

 “I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.”

Mohammad Ali (American boxing legend and activist)

“Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.” 

Wayne Dyer (American author and speaker in the field of self-development))

 “Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.”

Lao Tzu (Ancient Chinese philosopher and writer)

“I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”

Anne Hathaway (Award winning American actress)

“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done.”

Simone Weil (French philosopher, Christian mystic and political activist)