Our Capacity Quotes

157 quotes by 129 authors

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties. — Jack Kornfield
...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so… — Hillary Clinton
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher… — Gordon Allport
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of… — Alain de Botton
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring, our effectiveness, our… — Tarthang Tulku
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for… — Shana Alexander
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy… — Martin Luther
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. — Joyce Carol Oates
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not… — Arthur Lynch
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression — John Foster Dulles
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single… — Hannah Arendt
We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience. — Gautama Buddha
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity." — Michel de Montaigne
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry,… — Sam Keen
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity… — Daniel Goleman

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