Ability Quotes
5560 quotes by 3510 authors
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My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so…
— Junot Diaz
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In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.
— Deepak Chopra
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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
— Erich Fromm
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I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity…
— Christopher Paolini
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I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.…
— Timothy Zahn
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One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
— Vernor Vinge
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The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.
— Demi Lovato
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This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware,…
— J R Ward
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The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we…
— Henry Cloud
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We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much…
— Erich Fromm
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Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
— Germaine Greer
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Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us…
— Terence McKenna
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The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
— Susan Mallery
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Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
— Carrie Vaughn
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God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when…
— Jerry Bridges
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Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story…
— Tara Brach
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He didn't believe in a God who sifted through prayers, answering some and ignoring others, no matter how unworthy or worthy a person might be.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security…
— Erich Fromm
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