30 Fragility Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think. Alain de Botton

Alone Time People Emotions Better Wish Think Thinking Spending Spending Time Those Sign Kind Introverted Constantly Able Disturbance Examine Rather More Through Emotional Simply Feels Come Retreat Ideas Reaction Were Lot Than Just After Act Who Inner Fragility

The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. Homaro Cantu

Life Beautiful Culture Country Beauty Tree Back Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Significance Almost Reminder Also Cherry Cherry Blossom Years Tragically Blossom Goes Short Represents Japanese Japanese Culture Fragility

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. James Hillman

Education Capitalism Everyone Everything States Backward Admit About Fact Exceptionally Empire Categories Loss American Afraid Different In Fact Want Happened Which Infrastructure Fifteen United United States Fragility

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish

Grass Blade Only Poetry Attachment Like Armies Wall Human Confirming While Against Growing March Resist Fragility

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. Tariq Ramadan

History Diversity Country Rich Other Unlike Promise Religious Make Malaysia Surprising Cultural Any Land Full Compelling Fragility

If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility. Alber Elbaz

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. Alexander McQueen

Hidden Romance Agenda Fragility

I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine. Arca

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Bill Dedman

Life Risks World Wealth Daughter Ambition Reputation Distance Danger Clark Running Threads Folly Someone Costs Through Main Outside Tension Between Safe Judging His Burdens Engaging Inherited Include Lives Keeping Fragility

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian

Nature History Learning Collective Face Threshold Power Picture Big Believe Mark Our Dangers Complexity Only Part Development Also Course Human Human Beings Us Planet Show Beings Fragility

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. Greg Kinnear

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different. Jack Reynor

Work Love Reality Looking Big Think Philip Our Something Identity Returning Always Been Big Fan His Different Fan Might Theme Even Stark Actually Fragility

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors. Kai Bird

Girl Parents Young Sense Live Dread Some Horrors Unseen Absorb Unspoken Without Anticipation Child Survivors Same Anxious Sensibilities Young Girl Holocaust Transmitted Her Fragility

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts. Peter Maurer

Political Dramatically Address Destroyed Cities Solutions Something Only Resulting Armed Insufficient Protracted End Conflicts Created Organizations Humanitarian Services Fragility

White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. Robin DiAngelo

Silence White Ways Also Withdrawal Always Manifest Functions Fragility

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality. Robin DiAngelo

Reality Language Example White Significance Another Without How Endeavors Use Whites Many Describe Violence Fragility

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all. Robin DiAngelo

Feedback White Way Give Only Without Found Fragility

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