Capax Quotes & Sayings

And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it. — William Shatner

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
[Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.] — Horace

No two people see things the same. — David Patneaude

I feel the need to fall in love with the world, to forge that relationship ever more strongly. But maybe I don't have to work so hard. I have thought nature indifferent to humans, to one more human, but maybe the reverse is true. Maybe the world is already in love, giving us these gifts all the time - the glimpse of a fox, tracks in the sand, a breeze, a flower
calling out all the time: take this. And this. And this. Don't turn away. — Sharman Apt Russell

I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana. — Mark Strong

It is not given to each of us
To be desired. — Mina Loy

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. — Eckhart Tolle

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy. — Kacey Musgraves

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane. — N.K. Jemisin

The urge to fall [in love] was utterly new and made her [Athena] dizzy. He [Odysseus] could catch her and hold her up. She knew he could.
If this is how Aphrodite feels every day, it's no wonder she's such an idiot. — Kendare Blake

Some dancers dream about successful careers ... and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them. — Grover Dale