The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“He was certain she had an infirmity, some rare, peculiar mental disorder from birth, that made her do the opposite of what… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before… — Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Copy Share Image
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
“...infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and enables us to analyse mechanisms of which otherwise we should know nothing. A… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Life is full of physical infirmities that some might see as discriminations - total paralysis or serious mental impairment being two that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“On feeling guilty about lack of 'productivity': "In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You have to be optimistic about golf. I mean it's physically demanding, particularly if you're on one leg. But it's psychologically demanding… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You've been provided with a perfect body to house your soul for a few brief moments in eternity. So regardless of its… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
