#ability

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#ability #able #talent #talents #inspirational

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ability #courage #happen #lack #never

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#intelligence #professionalism #significance #vulnerability #intelligence

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#beloved country #country #egypt #god #her

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#life #speech #words #writing #life

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#inevitability #life #life

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #life

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way. ↗

— Tara Brach

#intimacy #kindness #listening #truth #vulnerability

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow ↗

— Alberto Nikas

#life