Able Quotes - Page 54

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

In my case, spirituality has been important to me because at periods in my life there's been very little else that I've had going. I've actually needed to call on, to feel the forces of good in this universe to be able to survive.

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.

I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.

The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikós", meaning "able to choose" - which pretty much says it all, don't you think?

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.