Quotes tagged ‘Capacity’

(5 total)

“Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”

— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm, amazon.com

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without beco…”

— Osho, amazon.com