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“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.”

People Littles Persons Pain Lying Bits Little Bit Conscience Capacity Let Me Misery Suits Demon Honorable Love Pain

Book:The Space Between

Source: The Space Between

“Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.”

People Mind Facts Pain Form Father Grows Opinion Boys Growing Up Youth Son Capacity Mere Accepted Phrases Substitutes Incapable No Pain

Book:Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

Source: Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are included within the circle of altruism. This means that all beings with the capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.”

Feels Should Mean Action Pain Pleasure Capacity Circles Welfare Affected Expansion Altruism Stopping Our Actions

Book:The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology

Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology

“The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.”

People Feels Trying Littles Seems Pain Actors Growing Like You Capacity Who You Are Misunderstanding Frustrating Growing Pains

Author:Matt Dillon

“This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.”

Ifs Knows World Pain Suffering This World Capacity Overcoming Annihilation Unspeakable

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.”

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.”

Way Giving Humans Doe Soul Reason Facts Pain Used Suffering Speak Lines Animal Rights Capacity Remains Possession Superiors Arbitrary Dividing Pain And Suffering Superior Intelligence

Author:Nathaniel Altman

“I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.”

Believe Heart May Has Beens Matter Pain Order Father Healing Compassion Poverty Son Capacity And Love Riches Wounds Heal Touched Wounded Prodigals Prodigal Son

Author:Jean Vanier

“Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.”

World Heart Pain Faces Suffering Compassion Bears Sorrow Capacity Dear Arise Pity Vulnerable Witness Overwhelmed Separateness Beauty Of The World Great Hearts Being Overwhelmed

Author:Jack Kornfield

“In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.”

Feels Kind Pain Capacity Disappear Feels Just

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.”

Important Running Pain Ability Effort Quality Influence Acceptance Capacity Extremes Factors Fatigue Will Power

Author:Jim Fixx