I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
Interpretation
Acknowledging our flaws and showing kindness can be more powerful than strength.
This quote emphasizes the strength found in vulnerability and kindness. It suggests that true courage lies not in being the strongest or most powerful, but in admitting our shortcomings and responding to challenges with compassion instead of aggression. It challenges conventional notions of strength and highlights the importance of empathy in our interactions with others.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one could use this quote to illustrate the importance of acknowledging our mistakes.
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
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