Quotes About Capacity

You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You'd be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron)

Underneath every detail of her life was a history of oppression. And yet she'd emerged not only with her spirit intact, but with a capacity for joy that he had only begun to understand. That he would now never truly know.

We all have a capacity for love, for kindness, for passion. We also have a capacity for the opposite, but love is infinitely more effective in the world than hate, although they exist as equal opposites.

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.

One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.

La primera limitación está en nuestra comprensión del alcance de nuestras posibilidades.

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

And there's also 'To him that hath shall be given.' After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

Even death is a power, a capacity. It is not a simple event that will happen to me, an objective and observable fact; here my power to be will cease, here I will no longer be able to be here. But death, insofar as it belongs to me and belongs to me alone, since no one can die my death in my stead or in my place, makes of this non-possibility, this impending future of mine, this relation to myself always open until my end, yet another power. Dying, I can still die, this is our sign as man.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

And all that may be an inherited grace, but Anne, within yet apart from her family, is unique. Of what is her genius made? That is the mystery I have been contemplating this morning. Perhaps the key is in her capacity to make herself available on any day, at any time, to whatever human joy or grief longs to be fulfilled or assuaged by sharing … longs to pour itself out and to be understood.

We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.

Magic is an expression of the unlimited capacity of mystery and wonder in the world.

It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

They persist in our daily life and they undermine our capacity to live fully and joyously. They even prevent us from participating in organized collective struggle aimed at ending domination and transforming society.