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  • The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

  • As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

  • You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

  • Everyone in heaven will be fully blessed, but not everyone will be equally blessed. Every believer's cup will be full and running over, but not everyone's cup will be the same size. We determine in time what our capacity for appreciating God will be in eternity.

  • The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

    1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.
  • The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world. ... Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.

    Soul   Age   Church  
  • Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

  • Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  • We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

    Courage   Fear   Taught  
    John McCain, Mark Salter (2004). “Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life”, p.9, Random House
  • Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.

    Real   Cancer   Years  
  • We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

    Survival   Safe   Tests  
    Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

    Men   Thinking   Feelings  
  • Its taken 14 billion years for matter to gain the capacity to become conscious of itself. If this is true, it wouldn't make any sense that the whole point of enlightenment would be to escape from the whole process at the very instant that the universe is beginning to awaken to itself.

    Life   Taken   Years  
  • When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

    Art   Memories   Believe  
  • There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

    Cake   Heaven   Earth  
    John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.138, Penguin
  • My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

    "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.
  • Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

    An Essay upon Projects "Of Academies: An Academy forWomen" (1697)
  • We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  • To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

    Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Harper Collins
  • Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.

    Average   Growth   World  
  • Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

    "The Courage to Be Vulnerable". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 29, 2015.
  • Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

    Art   Skills   Energy  
  • I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."

    Strong   Fun   Good Luck  
  • The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

    Fall   Wages   Capacity  
  • Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

    Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.

    Evil   Luck   Doe  
    Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org
  • Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

    Men   Mystery   Capacity  
    Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”
  • I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

    Believe   Wings   News  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
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