Able - Quotes
If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don`t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Fireproof doesn`t mean the fire will never come but that when it comes you will be able to withstand it.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
If you can`t tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn`t know.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians - lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only two means to preserve one`s freedom and one`s character.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
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.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.