Frail Quotes - Page 9

• Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

  John Milton

  Heart, Men, Spirit

  John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.413

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• Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.

  Paul of the Cross

  Humble, Men, Secret

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• Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Sublime, Bows, Ordinary

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• The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines the meaning of existence. A frail structure shaped by fleeting sound, it yet contains the eternal: truth. Words come from within, rising as sounds fashioned by the organs of a man's body, as expressions of his heart and spirit. He utters them, yet he does not create them, for they already existed independently of him. One word is related to another; together they form the great unity of language, that empire of truth-forms in which a man lives.

  Romano Guardini

  Powerful, Heart, Fate

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• You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Country, Sky, Looks

  Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”

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• I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, World, Safe

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.

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  Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Fall, Warrior

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• If nothing once, you nothing lose,
  For when you die you are the same;
  The space between is but an hour,
  The frail duration of a flower.

  Philip Freneau

  Flower, Space, Atheism

  Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148

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• The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved and frail free-will.

  William Jenkyn

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London".

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• As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Self, Doe

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Strong, Healing, Mean

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• Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Regret, Teaching

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.135, Lotus Press

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• To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Mean, Blessing

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