Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.
How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.
I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.
No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.
If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Love may be able to force you into precarious situations, it may lead you into double-edged bonfires and you don't smell the smoke, you only see the temptation of a perfume.
It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be decided.
Be confident in who you are, Cherry Blossom. Confidence and an understanding of who you are is an alluring combination men won't be able to resist.
She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality
All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others.
[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
Love should be love. Want should be want. You can love someone with all your heart. They can be your heart, but you have to be able to stand on your own and I couldn't.
Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot
Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.
