To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).Robert Louis Stevenson
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
Maya Angelou
In the external world, he is capable of nothing; but in the internal world, is he not capable of anything there, either? If a capability is actually to be a capability, it must have opposition, because if it has no opposition, then it is either all-powerful or something imaginary. But if he is supposed to have opposition, from whence is it supposed to come? In the internal world the opposition can only come from himself. Then he struggles with himself in the internal world, not as previously, where the deeper self struggled with the first self to prevent it from being occupied with the external. If a person does not discover this conflict, his understanding is faulty and consequently his life is imperfect; but if he does discover it, then he will once again understand that he himself is capable of nothing at all. Every time a person properly comprehends this brief and pithy truth, that he himself is capable of nothing at all, then he knows himself.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
John Scott
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow
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