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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ability
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗
#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite
I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. ↗
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. ↗
But, of course, putting yourself out there takes vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and we, as a rule, tend to go for what’s easy; by that logic, closing ourselves off is the easiest thing in the world. We quote the words of others to do our talking for us, send each other links to articles and stories in lieu of actual conversation, post pretty pictures to adequately convey our current state of mind, all to avoid having to proffer a single identifiable human emotion. We keep in touch with relatives by emailing them mawkishly inspirational chain letters once in a while. We regurgitate memes to approximate the feeling of being in the loop. ↗
