Ability Quotes And Sayings

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“Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person’s path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”
– Cormac Macarthy

“I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.”
– Gregory david Roberts

“Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
– Dennis Lehane

“A man’s dignity isn’t measured by the people he has around him when he’s at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day. ”
– Dorothy Koomson

“The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.”
– W.E. B. Du Bois

“Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. ”
– Dan Brown

“When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn’t normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.”
– Donald Miller

“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. ”
– Charles Bukowski

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.”
– Marianne Williamson

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you’re conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
– Anne Lamott

“Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.”
– Douglas Adams

“Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.”
– fred Rogers

“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause. ”
– Stieg Larsson

“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. ”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true. ”
– Cheryl Hughes

“Everyone has the ability to hurt. It’s the choice that matters.”
– Yvonne Woon

“Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives ”
– Torey Hayden

“Nice’ in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. ”
– Neil Gaiman

“One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other. ”
– Lisa Kleypas

“My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.”
– Thomas S. Monson

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always. ”
– Oprah Winfrey

“If you touch me, I said pleasantly, “I’ll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we’d see how bad ass you really are.”
– Richelle Mead

“If you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love. ”
– Bree Despain

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