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"all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it."
"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
"Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing."
"None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death."
"So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way."
"You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual."
"I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!"
"One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him."
"Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’), I understood why. To myself I would say: Well, yes of course I’m a bit much — if I weren’t, I would not be lit up by so many lights."
"Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily."
"I need to talk to Lena" There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go."
"It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true."
"I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more."
"If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight."
"Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius."
"If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you."
"I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly."
"You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through."
"By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English."
"We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings."
