The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner. — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception,… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us -… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star… — Mauricio Pochettino Copy Share Image
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This… — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
In the end, yoga for me is all about three things: more joy; being able to collect your capacity so you can… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident… — Walter Dill Scott Copy Share Image
The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet… — William Thompson Copy Share Image
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I don't think a heroine-oriented film has the capacity to pull an audience like a hero-oriented film in any film industry. — Priyamani Copy Share Image
