Capacity Quote by Thomas Merton

“Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The biginning of one's misery is to live by one's own will.

— Ace Kid

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as…

— Herbert Spencer

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things…

— Anonymous

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

— Friedrich Engels

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. -Epictetus

— Innah Delos Angeles

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in…

— Marcus Garvey

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and…

— Anonymous

“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended end, but…

— Immanuel Kant

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

— Dante Alighieri