Quotes of: Acting-ability Keyword

Her ability to use language, that thing that most separates humans from animals, was leaving her, and she was feeling less and less human as it departed. She's said a tearful good-bye to okay some time ago.

Still Alice

Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious - even in the midst of defeat.

The Soulful Pathway To Christmas: Soulfully Inspiring You in the Days Leading Up to Christmas and Beyond!

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and it...

Serve It Forth

Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.

Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History

An extraordinarily rare ability is in your possession. Hone the skills so you effectively utilize your gift. As we speak and as you wile away your time, the aswang is preparing to strike again. Lives are at stake!

The Merkabah Recruit

I water fake plants, because I’m growing a garden of fake mustaches. Lest no man (or woman) question my ability as a lover.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns...

And the Land Lay Still

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

The Story of a Marriage

Have faith in yourself and your ability to make conscious, healthy decisions.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her...

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.

Thriver: Happiness Is a Choice

No one outside could imagine what it felt like to squeeze the life out of a man, to feel the jerking and juddering as you throttled away their last breath. Sometimes Jared found himself staring at his own hands, marveling at what they’d done, disgu...

THROTTLE

I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.

Oops! Did I Really Post That

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

The Pursuit of Happyness

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothin...

The Pale King