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The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. -- Jennifer Aniston
If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone. -- Paula Patton
There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love. -- Giovanni Papini
Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love. -- Marianne Williamson
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. -- Wallace Stevens
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him. -- Sri Chinmoy
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. -- Viola Davis
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. -- Meg Ryan
I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are. -- John Shelby Spong
Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love. -- Lester Levenson
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. -- Anais Nin
We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. -- Rollo May
My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love. -- Maria Canals Barrera
Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love. -- Paulo Coelho
In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely. -- R. C. Sproul
Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another. -- Walter Starcke
Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love. -- John H. Groberg
The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches. -- Quentin Crisp
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. -- Erich Fromm
While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person. -- Tishuan Scott
When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost. -- Pope Francis
Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely. -- Jack Kornfield
Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust. -- Robin Lim
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves. -- Thomas Merton
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. -- Bruce D. Perry
Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die. -- Mary Zimmerman
If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight -- Sarah McLachlan
You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change. -- Geneen Roth
I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to making it happen. -- Robin Lim
It is very important that we have the capacity to love many different things or people at the same time. Our love should radiate like the sun, warming everything it touches. -- Peggy Toney Horton
Dana taught me that the ability to grieve deeply also meant that a person had the capacity to love deeply, laugh deeply, live deeply -- and that this was a capacity to be cherished. -- Melanie Benjamin
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe. -- Dawna Markova
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. -- James E. Faust
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. -- William Faulkner
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion. -- bell hooks
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received. -- Thomas Merton
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes. -- Margaret Mead
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses. -- Grace Lee Boggs
I ride a bicycle everywhere I go, the physical strength is obvious, but my mental strength and my capacity to love myself and to love others has definitely expanded. And that's the one thing I need the most in taking on a life of touring and a life of basically being with hundreds of people every day and not exhaust one's energy. -- Jason Mraz
Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love. -- Rajneesh
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. -- Nhat Hanh
I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president. -- Jim Talent
I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny. -- Billie Piper
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. -- Francoise Sagan
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle. -- Sean Pertwee
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. -- Ben Okri
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him. -- Henry B. Eyring
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love. -- David Rakoff
It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do. -- Joan Blades
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. -- Tara Brach
Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly. -- Radhanath Swami
The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. -- Helen Beardsley
Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul. -- Ariana Franklin
Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace. -- John Jantsch
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity. -- William Shakespeare
It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another. -- Jennifer Stone
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity. -- Jane Porter
The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. -- Shana Alexander
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love. -- Amanda McBroom
I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love. -- Lawrence Fagg
We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again -- Sharon Salzberg
The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow. -- Carlos H. Amado
Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. -- Peter Gallagher
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. -- Wilhelm Reich
Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification, -- Marilynne Robinson
I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions. -- Leonard Cohen
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. -- Erich Fromm
The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love. -- John de Ruiter
A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment. -- Norm MacDonald
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us. -- Martin Luther
Your capacity to experience the fullness of life is directly proportionate to your capacity to experience the fullness of love. -- Steve Maraboli
The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way. -- Bryant H. McGill
You can live in your total potential creative capacity in an instant-with your heart open to give and receive love. -- Marianne Williamson
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar. -- Jeanette Winterson
The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love. -- Dolores Hart
The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love. -- Dolores Hart
There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able. -- Bellamy Young
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden. -- Karen Armstrong
Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. -- David Deida
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion. -- David Gemmell
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. -- Rollo May
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. -- Rumi
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties. -- Jack Kornfield
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world. -- Jane Smiley
If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. -- Rajneesh
Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved. -- Dorothy Day
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion. -- Joanne Greenberg
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. -- Dean Koontz
True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision. -- Helen Rowland
You know the incredible thing about hearts is their unbelievable capacity for forgiveness. You'd be amazed what people will overlook when they love someone. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can. -- Dallin H. Oaks
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love. -- Eknath Easwaran
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them. -- Barbara Mandrell
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will. -- Olga Broumas
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. -- Glenn Beck
Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way. -- Ray Bradbury
There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind. -- Mark Consuelos
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157) -- Stephen Batchelor

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