Quotes on Able

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.