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“It is one thing to read the Scriptures and affirm their truth. But until you are in the trenches of trial, until you are faced with life circumstances that test your faith, until you are pressed to the absolute limit of your physical and emotional capacity, until you face the unrelenting stress of ongoing trauma, you never really know how you'll respond to what you may have embraced so easily during a comfortable Bible study.”

Knows May Faces Know How Study One Thing Emotional Circumstances Limits Comfortable Capacity Tests Stress Absolutes Trauma Scripture Trials Ongoing Bible Study Trenches Unrelenting

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man”

Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.”

Humans Wells May Certain Values Culture Moral Emotional Capacity Selected Complement Human Potential

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.”

Knows Feels Wells Sadness Emotional Capacity Singers Violent Contradiction Manic Elation Depressive

Author:Frank Sinatra

“The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.”

Feels Should Persons Belief Grief Events Emotional Capacity Disturbing

Author:Jennifer Armintrout

“I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.”

Thinking Emotional Capacity Landscape Opera

Author:Julie Taymor

“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.”

“Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.”

Knows Persons Powerful Successful Clear Share Emotional Capacity Storm Midst Great Success Successful Person

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.”

Source: Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

“The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.”

Giving Humans Levels Numbers Grief Emotional Giving Up Capable Capacity Response Zero Dozen Providing Adequate Exceed Reset Just Give Up Human Capacity Emotional Response

Book:Revelation Space

Source: Revelation Space

“Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.”

Mind Values Emotion Emotional Capacity Empty Fuel Inherent Motor

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.”

Humans Emotional Adventure Goodness Capacity Response Human Life Sobriety Human Family

Author:Thomas Keating

“People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.”

People Problem Reality Understanding Animal Moral Principles Growing Acceptance Emotional Capacity Cruelty Animal Cruelty

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.”

Ifs Long Country Care Political Certain Games Winning President Loses Minutes Policy Emotional Willing Capacity Vices Bombs Mary Closing Cliffs Vice President Mccain Palin Hail Hail Mary

Author:Dee Dee Myers