"In developing greater self-understanding, you must recognize both your strengths and your weaknesses. Most people think that the ability to achieve their goals will depend on their greatest strengths.... The truth is, however, that you are only as good as your biggest weakness."
- Jim Taylor, Ph.D., The Power of Prime
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201201/personal-growth-know-thyself-is-the-first-step-life-change

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Know yourself, including your strengths and weaknesses so that you choose/follow the path that is right for you.

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A person  should know his or her strengths, weaknesses/shortcomings and other important things about themselves. I suspect that most people know a lot about themselves but pretend not to or conceal who they are.

From the song 'The Weakness In Me' by Keisha White:

Why do you come here when you know I got troubles enough?
Why do you call me when you know I cant answer the phone?
Make me lie when I don't want to
and make someone else some kind of unknowing fool
You make me stay when I should not.
Are you so strong or is the weakness in me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlGYSiym0us

“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
– Susan Gale

“You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It's not your job to change these people, but it's your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can't. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.”
― C. JoyBell C.

What's your weakness?

From the song "Shoop" by Salt N Pepa:

Here I go, here I go, here I go again,
Girls, what's my weakness? (Men!)
Ok then, chillin', chillin', mindin' my business,
Yo, Salt, I looked around, and I couldn't believe this,
I swear, I stared, my niece my witness,
The brother had it goin' on with somethin' kinda...uh
Wicked, wicked - had to kick it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vaN01VLYSQ

From the song 'The Weakness In Me' by Keisha White:

Why do you come here when you know I got troubles enough?
Why do you call me when you know I cant answer the phone?
Make me lie when I don't want to
and make someone else some kind of unknowing fool
You make me stay when I should not.
Are you so strong or is the weakness in me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlGYSiym0us

"If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength."
- François VI de la Rochefoucault

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
- Oscar Wilde

"I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life. What I’ve learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it’s a strength."
- Elisabeth Shue

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein

"Self-esteem isn't about thinking you're the best and that you can do anything (that might be better termed narcissism or egotistical). Instead, self esteem is fundamentally based upon knowing what you do well, and what you aren't as good at. It's about knowing how far you can go, but also about the boundaries of your competence, knowledge and skills."
- John M. Grohol, Psy.D., Self esteem and a Sense of Self
http://psychcentral.com/archives/senseself.htm

"Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength."
- Charles Caleb Colton

Song #lesson: All Things Possible by Mark Schultz

I will call on Your name
For there’s always a way,
When You lead me
And when life knocks me down,
I am not counted out,
For You’re with me,
And You’re with me.

Even when it feels like the light is fading
And I’ve lost my way,
Still I’m holding on to the One who’s making
All things possible.

Even when it feels like my heart is breaking
Hold on, there is strength,
Knowing I belong to the One who’s making
All things possible.

I know mountains can move,
I’ve seen what You can do
In my weakness,
So my heart will believe,
If I wait I will see,
My God doing, what only He can do.

Even when it feels like the light is fading
And I’ve lost my way,
Still I’m holding on to the One who’s making
All things possible.

My God is strong and mighty,
My God is faithful,
My hope is in the Lord
For He is able.

http://youtu.be/wXRNX5NrX5A