Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.