Able Quotes - Page 87

When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

When we have gone beyond the boundaries of hope and fear, we are able to work with whatever comes our way.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.

I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

When we are seen by the heart we are seen for who we are. We are valued in our uniqueness by those who are able to see us in this way and we become able to know and value ourselves.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.