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Capacity Quotes (page 2)

Jennifer Aniston quote: "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity..."
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. Jennifer Aniston
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. Ernest Hemingway
The Holy Ghost causes out feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate. We are calmer. We have a greater capacity to love. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in character. As a result, we are more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things. Ezra Taft Benson
I live in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people but makes available for minority consumption an astonishing array of intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. Those who don’t enjoy (in both senses) my pleasures have every right, from their side, to regard my consciousness as spoiled, corrupt, decadent. I, from my side, can’t deny the immense richness of these pleasures, or my addiction to them. Susan Sontag
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. George Gissing
Patricia Highsmith quote: "I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end..."
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy. Patricia Highsmith
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room. Orhan Pamuk
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962 Flannery O'Connor
What a spiritual comfort and blessing it is to know that, if we look to our Savior Jesus Christ and endure to the end, eternal life and exaltation can be ours. Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him. Marvin J. Ashton
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Edgar Allan Poe
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. Terry Tempest Williams
The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Or rather, it made him into two people. He was by nature a cheerful almost irrepressible person with a great zest for life. He loved good talk and physical activity. He had a deep sense of humour and a great capacity for making friends. But from now onwards there was to be a second side, more private but predominant in his diaries and letters. This side of him was capable of bouts of profound despair. More precisely, and more closely related to his mother's death, when he was in this mood he... Humphrey Carpenter
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. J. R. R. Tolkien
Martin Amis quote: "You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious..."
You don't have problems, only a capacity for feeling anxious about them, which shifts and jostles but doesn't change. Martin Amis

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