Kindness for Weakness Quotes

“If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“I can see the color of the grass deepening, becoming impossibly green the way it does in early spring when you've almost stopped believing that things will ever grow again. Right now it looks like each individual blade has been painted, and I wonder who will notice these things when I'm gone.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“Maybe Wolf Larsen was right, and life is simply a mess. Maybe the strong eat the weak so they can stay strong. Maybe that's all there is.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“The big eat the little. The strong eat the weak. I know where I stand in this chain, but I don't want to be eaten. I'm tired of being the weak one who get pushed around. The big question is, when the time comes, how hard will I fight?”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“As far as I'm concerned, he's the biggest piece of shit I've ever met next to Ron. But at the same time, hearing him talk about his childhood is oddly compelling, like wanting to see a car wreck.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“It feels good to hear these words, even if I haven't done anything and we're not even close to being men. Even if we are screwups, losers, and criminals, it's still nice to hear someone like Mr. E tell us different.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“I know that we're not on a ship and there is no water around us, but I can't help wonder how long before my friend is cast into the sea.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“It doesn't really matter, I guess. Just like it didn't matter for Van Weyden when he finally realized he was on a hell ship and everyone was going to die.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“What's real strength Samson?" he says. " It's when you're a balanced man. When you can think as well as use your body. And you have to know who you are and be okay with it. If that means that you're not ripped or tough or a badass, then so be it," says Samson.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“But the most important part," he says, "is that you have to believe in something that is real and true. A lot of guys don't believe in anything. They will tell you what they are against, what they don't like,but they can't tell you what they are for. Because they don't actually believe in anything.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“Now," he says, "you all need to stand by your choices. Fighters should expect to get locked up again. If you can accept that, then there's no shame in it. Everybody is free to do whatever they want in life, so long as they accept the cost.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“Next card: 'The right answer is to walk away, but I ain't weak. I've seen what happens to weak people.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“Same thing," says Levon. "People mistake your kindness for weakness.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“In Vietnam. That's where I had to fight. I don't talk about it much, but now that you ask, I think it's why I love this dog. We've both had to fight a lot, and neither of us is mean or angry. At least I don't think we are.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“He's been through hell and back, this dog, but he's not mean. Apollo doesn't have a mean bone in his body.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“See, you smart, James. You sit and watch everyone, and you know stuff without having to run your mouth. I'm always running my mouth, which gets my release took away and a bunch of knows in my head.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“He wanted to die, too, and I didn't even really know him. I don't think anybody did. How are you supposed to know someone who stares at his hands all day, and cracks his head open on a concrete wall?”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“I should probably feel something more about his death, but I don't. It's messed up that he killed himself, and it's messed up that the guards broke Bobby's arm. And it's not right, either, that we have to spend months in a place where no is getting any better. No one is learning anything, as far as I can see. In some ways, it seems like people are getting worse. Am I? I don't think so, but who knows.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“He's just my brother now and not my hero. I will not try to be like him. So, then who am I supposed to be like?”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“It's a matter of respect for yourself," say's Antwon. "Because if you act like it's okay, then nobody going to respect you, and you ain't even going to respect yourself, which is worse, 'cause it gives you, like, this smell in the streets where other people can tell that you're weak.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

“It's a shame you have to go down for someone else. You don't seem like such a bad kid.”
― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness

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― Shawn Goodman, Kindness for Weakness