The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.
We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers. "
. . . our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.
The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments.
I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.