Who was Robert Lax and what was his approach to poetry and spirituality. How did Lax view the relationship between dreams, reality, and spiritual awareness. What insights can we gain from Lax’s writings about finding meaning and grace in life.
The Poetic Vision of Robert Lax: Blending Simplicity and Profundity
Robert Lax was a 20th century American poet known for his minimalist style and spiritual depth. His work often explored themes of contemplation, presence, and the sacred nature of everyday life. One of Lax’s most striking poems demonstrates his ability to convey profound ideas through deceptively simple language:
not so much
finding a path
in the woods
as finding
a rhythm
to walk in
This brief poem encapsulates much of Lax’s philosophy – the idea that life is not about following a predetermined path, but about discovering one’s own natural rhythm and way of being in the world. It suggests that authentic living comes not from external guidance, but from an inner attunement to one’s true nature.
Lax’s Approach to Spirituality and Grace
Throughout his life and work, Lax emphasized the importance of openness to spiritual experiences and what he called “fortuities” – seemingly coincidental events that carry deeper meaning. He believed in cultivating a receptive state of being that allows for grace to enter one’s life.
How can one become more open to grace and spiritual insight? For Lax, it wasn’t about following specific religious practices, but about adopting a general orientation of receptivity and presence. This might involve:
- Cultivating mindfulness in everyday activities
- Practicing patience and non-attachment
- Approaching life with curiosity and wonder
- Being attentive to small moments of beauty or connection
By living in this way, Lax believed one could become more attuned to the subtle workings of grace in one’s life.
The Intersection of Dreams and Reality in Lax’s Philosophy
One of Lax’s journal entries provides insight into his unique perspective on the relationship between dreams, waking life, and spiritual awareness:
“to live in our dreams as though they were real, and through the waking day, as though we were dreaming
to treat all beings, in dream and waking, with reverence due the numinous
and yet to be wide awake, both in sleeping and waking”
This passage suggests a blurring of the lines between different states of consciousness. For Lax, the goal was to maintain a sense of reverence, presence, and spiritual awareness across all aspects of life – whether awake or dreaming.
Integrating Dream and Waking Consciousness
How can we apply Lax’s ideas about integrating dream and waking consciousness in our own lives? Some possible approaches include:
- Keeping a dream journal to increase dream recall and awareness
- Practicing lucid dreaming techniques
- Bringing a sense of wonder and curiosity to everyday experiences
- Treating encounters in waking life with the same openness we might have in dreams
By cultivating this fluid awareness, we may become more receptive to insights and experiences that transcend ordinary consciousness.
Finding Meaning Beyond Conventional Goals
In the same journal entry, Lax goes on to ask and answer a provocative question:
“to what good end? to no good end: only to a continuation in being; to a clarification through being of what it means to be”
This statement challenges conventional notions of purpose and achievement. For Lax, the deepest meaning in life comes not from accomplishing external goals, but from the ongoing process of exploring and clarifying the nature of existence itself.
Embracing Process Over Outcome
How can we shift our focus from achieving specific outcomes to embracing the journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth? Some possibilities include:
- Practicing mindfulness meditation to cultivate present-moment awareness
- Engaging in creative activities without attachment to the end result
- Regularly reflecting on personal values and what gives life meaning
- Approaching challenges as opportunities for growth rather than obstacles
By adopting this perspective, we may find a deeper sense of fulfillment that transcends conventional measures of success.
The Concept of “Thin Places” and Spiritual Receptivity
In discussing Lax’s life and work, the author Michael N. McGregor introduces the concept of “thin places” – locations where the barrier between physical and spiritual realms is believed to be less substantial. He suggests that Lax himself was a kind of “thin person,” unusually open to spiritual experiences and synchronicities.
What makes a place or person more spiritually receptive? Some factors might include:
- A history of spiritual practice or reverence
- Natural beauty or powerful landscapes
- A sense of timelessness or removal from everyday concerns
- The presence of individuals with heightened spiritual awareness
While we may not all be “thin people” to the degree that Lax was, his example suggests that cultivating spiritual receptivity can lead to a richer, more meaningful experience of life.
Lax’s Influence on Contemporary Spirituality and Poetry
Robert Lax’s unique blend of minimalist poetry and spiritual insight continues to influence writers, artists, and seekers today. His work anticipates many themes in contemporary mindfulness and contemplative practices, while also offering a distinct poetic voice.
How has Lax’s approach shaped modern spirituality and literature? Some key impacts include:
- Inspiring a renewed interest in contemplative poetry
- Influencing the development of mindfulness practices in secular contexts
- Encouraging interdisciplinary explorations of spirituality, art, and philosophy
- Providing a model for integrating spiritual awareness into everyday life
By studying Lax’s work and life, we can gain valuable insights into the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and authentic living.
Practical Applications of Lax’s Philosophy in Daily Life
While Lax’s ideas may seem abstract, they offer numerous possibilities for practical application in our everyday experiences. By adopting some of his approaches, we may be able to cultivate greater presence, meaning, and spiritual awareness in our lives.
Finding Your Natural Rhythm
How can we apply Lax’s idea of “finding a rhythm to walk in” to our own lives? Some strategies might include:
- Experimenting with different daily routines to find what feels most natural
- Paying attention to personal energy cycles and aligning activities accordingly
- Allowing time for unstructured exploration and creativity
- Listening to intuition when making decisions about life direction
Cultivating Openness to “Fortuities”
To become more receptive to meaningful coincidences and spiritual insights, we might try:
- Practicing mindfulness to increase awareness of subtle experiences
- Keeping a journal to track synchronicities and patterns
- Engaging in regular contemplative practices like meditation or prayer
- Approaching life with an attitude of curiosity and wonder
By incorporating these practices into our daily lives, we may find ourselves more attuned to the subtle workings of grace and meaning that Lax so valued.
The Legacy of Robert Lax: Challenges and Opportunities
As we consider Lax’s contributions to poetry and spirituality, it’s worth examining both the challenges and opportunities presented by his unique approach. While his work offers profound insights, it also raises questions about the practicality and accessibility of his philosophy.
Challenges in Applying Lax’s Ideas
What are some potential difficulties in trying to live according to Lax’s principles? Some considerations include:
- The tension between spiritual ideals and practical necessities of daily life
- The challenge of maintaining spiritual awareness in a fast-paced, distraction-filled world
- The potential for misunderstanding or trivializing Lax’s ideas without deeper engagement
- The difficulty of cultivating patience and receptivity in a culture that values quick results
Opportunities for Growth and Transformation
Despite these challenges, Lax’s work offers numerous opportunities for personal and collective growth:
- Encouraging a more contemplative and mindful approach to life
- Inspiring creative expression that integrates spiritual insights
- Promoting a sense of interconnectedness and reverence for all beings
- Offering a model for finding meaning beyond conventional measures of success
By engaging deeply with Lax’s ideas and experimenting with their application in our own lives, we may discover new pathways to meaning, creativity, and spiritual awareness.
Lax writings and quotes – Robert Lax
I found this beautiful–and beautifully published–poem by Robert Lax in my collection of his works. The original is printed on three of four sides of two-foot-tall fine paper with cover sheets that are disintegrating. I don’t know who printed it or when.
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(Click here to watch the Blackbyrds live out Lax’s advice.)
not
so
much
find
ing
a
path
in
the
woods
as
find
ing
a
rhythm
to
walk
in
Robert Lax, p. 381, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
Coincidentally, over the past few weeks, several people have asked me about the simple poem printed here. If there’s one thing I learned during my many years of hanging out with Robert Lax, it was to trust coincidences, which, with Lax, were better called fortuities.
People talk about “thin places” in the world—locations where the barriers between our tangible reality and a more spiritual realm are less substantial. These are thought to be places of unusual energy, where unusual things can happen. Findhorn or Iona in Scotland, for example. Or Lourdes in France. Or Lax’s own island, Patmos.
Lax, to me, was an example of a “thin person.” His life was filled with fortuities, mostly of a spiritual nature. And it was oddly common for those who came to know him to have the same kind of experience in their own lives. The reason, I believe, was that Lax was more open to the spiritual realm than most people. As a result, the veil between this world and the next seemed to thin around him. When he came in contact with a person in a complementary state of spiritual openness, anything could happen. And often did.
When I met him, for example, an extraordinary series of improbable coincidences put me on Patmos reading about him in his best friend’s book, and several more led to our actual meeting.
At the time, in part because I was young and had a certain hunger, I was more open to spiritual possibilities than at any other time in my life.
One of Lax’s most beloved pieces of advice is to put yourself “in a place where grace can flow to you.” Rather than a physical space, I think he meant a way of being, a spirit of receptivity, an orientation toward the living God. By putting ourselves in such a place, we open ourselves to unseen love, the energy of the universe, and the possibility of fortuities.
The question, of course, is how to do that. Through prayer? Patience? Meditation? Charity? All of these are worthy ways to access grace. But I believe the main way, for Lax, is right there in his poem.
Once, years ago, the artistic director of a prominent theater told me a key moment in his life came when he was about to leave graduate school and start his career. Unsure whether he should move to New York and become an actor or return to his hometown to start a theater, he asked an old professor—a grizzled veteran of the New York stage—for advice.
The professor fixed him with a narrowed eye and said, “There’s no path. Do what you want to do.”
It seems to me Lax is saying something similar in his poem: Stop trying to find the path to get through the woods as fast as you can. Concentrate instead on discovering who you are and let that carry you forward, at whatever pace and in whatever way is most natural for you.
It’s the rhythm and the movement that are most important, not the woods or the path. The rhythm is the rhythm of the jazz musicians jamming, the acrobats performing on the backs of horses, the islanders setting out to fish in tiny boats. The movement is the movement of the music. Of the animals. Of the sea.
Each of us must find the natural rhythm and movement in our own lives, our own beings, as we are fit and blessed and motivated to live them. Then will the fortuities of grace and love begin to flutter down “like birds,” as author Milan Kundera once wrote, “to Francis of Assisi’s shoulders.”
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to live in our dreams as though they were real, and through the waking day, as though we were dreaming
to treat all beings, in dream and waking, with reverence due the numinous
and yet to be wide awake, both in sleeping and waking
to what good end? to no good end: only to a continuation in being; to a clarification through being of what it means to be
–Robert Lax, journal entry, March 28, 1979
(p.
349, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax by Michael N. McGregor)
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The image here—of a Lax experiment—is from an interesting website called Teaching Poetry and American Art. According to the site’s introduction, it is meant to “help students interpret the author’s and artist’s purpose, while teaching them to create images from words and use words to create images.” If you click on the link above, it will take you to the Lax page, where you’ll find a couple images of his work, along with links to some of his friends and contemporaries, such as Mary Ellen Solt, Emmett Williams, and William “Bill” Burford. The site is maintained by William Plashke.
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life is a river & we the streams that feed it each stream should empty itself completely into the river & not hold back our way of talking our way of being is what we have to contribute to the stream why keep it all dammed up ? ------- who should a slow moving river try to move fast why should a meander ing stre am pretend to be straight? ---------- the civilizers build high dams but water flows wherever it can ---------- are you afraid that if you're a cow some mouse will get ahead of you some bright-eyed rodent do you in? fear not (God watches mice & cows) -------- the animal most to fear is man Robert Lax journal entry May 19, 1974 --from pp.327-329, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax by Michael N. McGregor
327-329, Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
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It’s a quiet time in the realm of Robert Lax. Philip Glass’s opera based on The Circus of the Sun was supposed to go on a world tour after its premiere at the Malmö Opera House last May, but Covid forced the premiere online and the tour has yet to be rescheduled. I know of no new Lax books coming out. And any forthcoming creative works based on his life or poems are still percolating in secret. Even the internet search I always do before putting this newsletter together yielded nothing fresh.
Which seems just fine for the end of winter, when nature pauses before offering the fireworks of spring. In Lax’s later years on Patmos, when visitors arrived from spring through fall, winter was often the only time he was truly alone.
The wind would blow and the rain would pelt his modest house, where it could be quite chilly inside as well as out. He’d dress in two layers of clothes, pull a watchcap over his ears, and sit on his bed, sometimes under the covers, with a small pad in one hand and a pen in the other.
There, he’d write poems to the wind and the rain, just as in summer he’d write them to the sun and the green on the hills. He understood that acquiring both wisdom and greater awareness of the presence of God meant being fully alive to every moment, every emotion, and even every hardship. He once wrote:
to be wise is to know, for one thing, which way the wind blows…
knowing how to stay alive & healthy (well-fed & with adequate air
and sleep) in all kinds of conditions is also a part of wisdom
the wisdom of survival.
wisdom for survival.
he who is imbued with the wisdom of survival is not only fit for “sur-
vival” himself, but for teaching it to others.
(even to generations of
others.
“the survival of the fittest”–not of the fiercest, not of the fastest–
the fittest, among men, may, after all, be the wisest.
In the same year he wrote these lines, 1969–a time when he was still growing used to living in the islands full-time–he also wrote:
as a child (it seemed) he had played alone in the living room most of
the time, dancing to records on the gramophone and performing in
an imaginary theater.
(now it was only when he was quite alone that his imagination began
to come alive.)
what he needed was not only quiet, but solitude: a solitude that honed
itself against solitude.
It seems, of course, that we’re about to exit not only the quiet of winter but also the quiet of these lockdown years. In these final days of relative solitude, of conditions I would not normally choose, I ask myself if I’ve grown wiser in the ways of survival during this time–wise enough to teach others down the line, as Lax did.
I ask, too, if I’ve put my fears and anxieties aside long enough for my imagination to come alive–to be like a child again, dancing to a gramophone.
In winter, when Lax was alive, I’d often picture him sitting placidly on that bed in that room with the wind and the rain making their assault outside. There was little to envision really–a man in a watchcap on a bed, writing on a cheap pad–but that image always made me more comfortable and more courageous with my own aloneness–my own attempts to create or discover something valuable, wise, and true.
(The quotes used here are from pp. 216 & 243 in Love Had a Compass by Robert Lax.)
This post originally appeared in the February 2022 issue of The Robert Lax Newsletter. To sign up for this free bimonthly publication, click here and enter your email address on the left-hand side of the page.
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© Michael N. McGregor
In my conversations with Robert Lax back in the 1980s and 1990s, when I was spending time with him every year, we talked about art many times. He saw art as a guide for people but also a mirror, in which they could see our own responses to the world more clearly and understand them better. Here’s a slightly edited portion of one of those conversation:
MNM: What is the purpose of art?
RL: Well, I’ll talk figuratively for a second. Just as Virgil could lead Dante into hell and up as far as he could and Beatrice could lead Dante the rest of the way up to heaven, art is a guide. Art is a bridge or a guide or a tour guide that leads you along to upper levels. It doesn’t drag you along by any means. At most it coaxes you or invites you. More like that: it invites you along.
…You might think, if you’d never seen any art or read any poetry, that your dreams and things that go beyond the ordinary in your solitary moments were yours alone and you might consider them a problem.
Or you might consider your reactions to what someone said, which seemed so elaborate and beyond what in the ordinary course of things you’d expect them to be, to be troubling. But fortunately somebody learned to write about them, somebody learned to put them on stage, and that helps the whole community know how to understand—not just deal with, but understand—and even appreciate those moments.
MNM: I’m thinking about the phrase from Blake: “the doors of perception.” Is that akin to what you’re saying about art?
RL: Yes. I think that’s exactly it. For example, people analyze dreams—since Freud, at least—to find out what dreams tell them about their problems, but dreams serve so much more of a function for us than just letting us know what our problems are. It’s a whole world and in a sense you might think that art serves the same function in a community that a dream serves in the psyche of an individual.
When I asked Lax how this related to his latest books, which, at that time, contained mostly journal entries, he mentioned his small book 27th & 4th, composed of descriptions of people he saw passing that corner in New York from his office at Jubilee magazine in the 1950s.
Here’s what he said about writing it:
RL: I had a friend, Jacques Lowe, a photographer, who used to practice photography by snapping people as they walked quickly past a low narrow door, and I thought I could do the same thing with writing. So I would just describe, quickly describe, everyone who went down the block as though I was a camera or something like that. I described them as I saw them and as I would talk to myself about them. So there would be jokes about them. I wasn’t trying to be objective or something like that. I was seeing them just as I saw them, talking about them just in my own language.
What I’m trying to do, in a sense, is bear witness—not false witness—to life as I see it and as I like it—as I love it—whatever it is, if it attracts me, and most of it does.
Lax is saying many things here, but I want to focus on three in particular:
1. Artists need to begin by paying attention: seeing what is really there, but also noting their responses to it.
2. Artists need to risk taking their interior life into the outside world, not merely to express it but in hopes that others will see their reflection in it and understand their own thoughts and responses better.
3. The patient seeking of one’s own understanding about even the most common of life’s moments can lead a community to a better place.
While Lax was talking primarily about his own approach to writing and making art, he was also showing all of us how to foster understanding in a community and help that community rise to a higher level, whether it’s only group of friends or an entire nation. We all need to seek to see more clearly and express our reactions to what we see more honestly, bearing witness—not false witness—to life as it truly is, with understanding as our goal.
A selection from 27th & 4th
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Robert Lax was born in Olean, New York, on this day in 1915, to Sigmund and Rebecca Lax, both Jewish immigrants.
To honor his birthday, here’s a brief selection from his poetry (and his soul):
Who can speak for the soul's delight in a beautiful
day?
Who can tell the wonder that enters through the eyes
& into the heart?
Who knows the soul's rejoicing?
The whisper it would make to its Maker,
the whisper of love, the song of glory?
Who knows the soul's delight in beauty?
The light
is on the mountains
in the brush country,
& I am tortured
by the beauty
of the light
upon the mountains
in the brush country.
(a selection from a longer poem set down on November 12, 1947, in Hollywood, CA)
--p. 68, journal E/tagebuch E: hollywood journal, published by pendo-verlag, 1996
(a selection from a longer poem set down on November 12, 1947, in Hollywood, CA)
--p. 68, journal E/tagebuch E: hollywood journal, published by pendo-verlag, 1996
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Video artist Susanne Weigner has produced several short, award-winning videos from Robert Lax poems. One of her latest ones, called “moments,” was recently part of a show in Taipei, Taiwan, curated by a group based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lax’s words are getting around!
Another Weigner-Lax videopoem, called “contemplation is watching” took first prize in the 2019 Atticus Review Videopoem Contest. You can watch it below:
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This short poem by Robert Lax, displayed in an exhibition of his writings and photographs at St.
Bonaventure University a few years ago, sums up his view of life.
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Quotes about weakness.
Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about weakness.
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All cruelty comes from weakness.
• Seneca Lucius Annaeus
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• John of Damascus
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• Hafiz Shirazi
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Do not expect righteous deeds from the weak-hearted.
• Saadi
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Misfortune is a step towards the rise of a genius, a purifying font is for a Christian, a treasure is for a clever person, an abyss is for a weak one.
• Honore de Balzac
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He who applies his strength proves his weakness.
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Who has not experienced how weak, empty
Words are before the greatness of beauty?
Whose mind was strong enough,
So that, with marvelous delight, blinded,
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The power and authority of beautiful eyes?
• George G. Byron
Beautiful Quotes, Beauty, Weakness
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then: a tendency to compromise, to philistinism – we justify it like this: “this is for children.
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• Anton P. Chekhov
Children, Compromise, Weakness
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Strong and weak, how are they distinguished?
I think so, probably:
The strong one conquers his vices,
The weak one serves them faithfully!
• Eduard A. Asadov
Strength, Weakness
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In fact, the poet is much smaller and weaker than the average person. Therefore, he feels the heaviness of earthly existence much sharper and stronger than others. For himself, his singing is only a cry.
• Franz Kafka
Singing, Poet and Poetry, Weakness
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Is the chess king weak before the queen?
But I, fool, am weaker before you!
• Omar Khayyam
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• Ralph W. Emerson
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while hiding his real face – the face of nothingness.
True greatness is effortless, gentle, cordial, simple and accessible.
• Jean de La Bruyère
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Strength is terrible in its weaknesses.
• Stanislav E. Lets
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• Marcus Aurelius
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Like Knowing his weakness, a person becomes stronger.
• Honore de Balzac
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All what anger comes from impotence.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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creates weaknesses and does not forgive mistakes.
• Ralph W. Emerson
Nature, Weakness
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The hatred of the weak is less dangerous than their friendship.
• Vauvenargues Luc de Clapier
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900 02 Sensitivity and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and determination .
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Kindness, Determination, Weakness
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Soft and weak wins over hard and strong.
• Lao Tzu
Wise quotes, strength, weakness lies the secret of strong people; weakness and crookedness, trying to hide themselves, turn everything into a secret.
• Philip D. S. Chesterfield
Quotes of Wisdom, Secret, Stealth, Weakness
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In a personal sense, the difference between a traitor by weakness and a traitor by intent and calculation is very great; Politically, there is no difference.
• Vladimir I. Lenin
Betrayal, Difference, Weakness
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My conviction is that no person loses freedom otherwise as through your own weakness.
• Gandhi Mahatma K.
Wise quotes, Freedom, Weakness
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Weakness on both sides is, as you know, a feature of all quarrels.
• Voltaire
Weakness, Quarrel
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To love is to show weakness; to fall out of love means sometimes to show no less weakness.
• Jean de La Bruyère
Other, Weakness
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Honesty in politics is the result of strength, and hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
• Vladimir I. Lenin
Hypocrisy, Politics, Strength, Weakness, Honesty
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Loneliness is the destiny of the strong. The weak always cling to the crowd.
• Jean Paul
Quotes of wisdom, Loneliness, Reflections, Weakness, Crowd to him from the weak side.
• Adolf Knigge
Change, Weakness
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the false is based on the consciousness of the weakness of others.
• Johann G. Herder
Strength, Weakness
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718 beautiful quotes about weakness with meaning.
The best aphorisms and sayings of great people about weakness – BBF.RU
Answering a question is a sign of weakness.
Questions, Weakness
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Weak hands cannot hold a heavy sword,
Do not expect righteous deeds from the weak-hearted.
Saadi
Affairs, Soul, Weakness
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We admire people for their strength, but love them for their weakness.
Peter Ustinov
People, Strength, Weakness
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Doing what you are weakest at is the only way to overcome your limitations.
Matt Mitrione
Motivating, Limitations, Self-development, Weakness
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The ability to forgive is a property of the strong. The weak do not forgive. (The weak cannot forgive.)
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness, Strength, Weakness
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Cruelty always springs from callousness and weakness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cruelty, Weakness, Meaningful
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Many people spend their whole lives trying to cover up their weaknesses because they want to be good. A successful person is always looking for them, because it is from this place that you can become better. I can’t improve if I’m already good.
Lisa Kreo
About me, Weakness, Success
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The tendency of weak people is to blame others for their misfortunes.
Lev Evdokimovich Balashov
Misfortune, Accusations, Weakness
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Every person has his weaknesses, and often this is the most interesting thing in him.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
People, Weakness
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My weaknesses are food and men.
It’s in that order.
Dolly Parton
Weakness
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If we relax and lose our knack, comfort will weaken us.
Quote from The Walking Dead
Carol Peletier
Comfort, Weakness
at any cost. People outside will look for a loophole, they will take advantage of your weaknesses. You are useful as long as you have something to take away. As long as you can be used to survive.
Quote from the series “Walking Dead”
RIC Graims
Survival, weakness
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We will not become weak. We have no weakness left.
Quote from The Walking Dead
Rick Grimes
Strength, Weakness
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Everything is as before. Weak cover.
quote from The Walking Dead TV series
Weakness
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There is no place for weaklings in this world.
quote from the anime “Akame ga Kill!”
Esdeath
Weakness
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The fate of the weak is sad.
quote from the anime “Akame ga Kill!”
Weakness
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Everyone has their own weaknesses, vulnerabilities.
quote from The Dark Tower movie
Walter Padic
Weakness, Vulnerability
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— Why did he let you read these letters? Did he want to laugh at me?
– What are you doing! He is not laughing! He was just consulting with me how to help you.
— I have no doubt, Shura, that you gave him good advice.
quotation from the film “Office Romance”
Activist Shura, Olya Ryzhova
Sadness, Intimacy, Personal life, Letters, Weakness
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— If I just raise my hand, your Golden City will turn to ashes. I am the law here. You obeyed Arthur, now you obey me.
– My people are unarmed, Malagan. Do you want my life? Take her.
– Look! Great King Arthur of Camelot! He seemed to have just woken up from a dream. The strong rule over the weak. This is how your Lord arranged the world.
— The Lord makes us strong for a short time so that we can help the weak.
— The Lord made me strong so that I could survive in this life! Arthur says, “Serve one another.” When will you live for yourself? I brought you freedom! Freedom from Arthur and his dreams, freedom from oppressive laws.
quote from the movie “The First Knight”
King Arthur, Malagan
Protection, Freedom, Strength, Weakness
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Forgive me for not the ability to overcome one’s own weaknesses.
