Able Quotes - Page 31

The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us.

Change allows us to exit the comfortable and enter the improved.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

Being sociable is a sacrifice, as I see it. I really don't like to be, but it is necessary and worth it.

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don’t press in for God’s best.

People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.