Capacity Quotes

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.