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41 " Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. "
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Mother Night
42 " I love you, Julie. I loved you that first moment when I looked across the restauraunt and found you. Then you were the loveliest thing I'd ever seen; but now I've discovered how much more you are; loyal and courageous and as true as steel. There's laughter in you and a capacity to love. Julie, Julie, could you learn to love me? "
43 " Human Dignity has five characteristics : A playful curiosity,a capacity for dreams, a sense of humor to achieve and correct those dreams, a certain flexibility and spontaenity of behavior, a capacity to fight for and save those dreams ! "
― , Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
44 " The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26 "
― Ilchi Lee , Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
45 " No, forget love, the best we can hope to mould, given the poor Play-Doh of humankind, is a capacity for tolerance. This is achievable since tolerance is little more than indifference with a Dulux coat of manners. Surely we can manage that? Call me a dreamer but I can see a world where people of all races, creeds and colour will live together in harmony because they don't give a toss about each other. "
46 " If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. "
47 " rouble creates a capacity to handle it. "
48 " Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture. "
49 " Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer but a capacity for faith the power of a thorough consecration the ability of self-littleness an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. "
50 " What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. "
51 " I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously. "
52 " Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped. "
53 " I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. "
54 " The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. "
― H.P. Lovecraft
55 " Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world. "
