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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  William James

  Attitude, Accomplished, Amazed

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• Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

  Brené Brown

  Broken, Wholeheartedness, Greater

  "The Courage to Be Vulnerable". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 29, 2015.

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• So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Race, Two

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• The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Profound, Discipline

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program - a system of learning and doing. Studying all the greats in that field and becoming greater. I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.

  Michael Jackson

  Powerful, Believe, Mind

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• The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Winning, Track

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  Tara Brach

  Lost Love, Heart, Love Life

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

  Kurt Sutter

  Country, Character, Desire

  "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Party, Judging, Suffering

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.

  George Lakoff

  Animal, Views, Mind

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• Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Writing, Character, Phones

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• Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Knowing, Years, Intuition

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• The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

  Quentin Crisp

  Capacity To Love, People

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• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Self, Choices, Denial

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• Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

  Erich Fromm

  Civilization, Doubt, May

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• It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Teaching, Heart

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• At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Home, Apathy

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• The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Men, Race

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• Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Law, Knowing

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• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Years, Pay

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• The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Self, Soul

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• Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

  Jane Smiley

  Beautiful, Love Is, World

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Mar 12, 2012

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• However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
  Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
  The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Giving

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

  Franz Kafka

  Inner Beauty, True Beauty, Youth

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