#ability

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role. One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries. ↗

— Pierre Bayard

#compatability #imagination #inner-lives #interiority #literature

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability. ↗

— Qaisar Iqbal Janjua

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you. ↗

— Rob Liano

#leadership #leadership

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. ↗

— Paul Newman

#environment #farmer #inspirational #sainthood #sustainability

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#either #life #or #truth #life

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. ↗

— John Poindexter

#believe #between #both #gives #i

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#always #called #had #how #i

I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #quitting #reliability #funny

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create