About This Quote
This quote by the great poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, is a portrait of what it means to be human, and it’s a good one: We all have the ability to do the right thing and to do it well. We all have the ability to do things we would never usually do. We all have the ability to love and to heal and we all have the ability to hurt or fail or betray, but we can’t always control those things.
Our ability is in fact our weakness because without that ability we cannot live. The beauty in this quote lies in what it shows about us as humans. It shows that we are capable of doing great things when we put our minds to it.
Source: You Are Safe Here.
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