The Positive Qualities for the week of 11/15/2026

 

Definitions: (1) possessing physical or mental attributes required for performance or accomplishment; intelligent; (2) able to understand or to receive into a capacious mind or soul

Synonyms: clever, competent, efficient, gifted, skillful, suitable

Quotes: Human beings are capable of making an everlasting self-identification with total and indestructible universe reality. (116:7.5) — The Urantia Book {1955}

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 Harold Maslow (1908-1970) American psychologist

Tip: Assess your capabilities. Start with your natural physical endowments. Exercise and expand those to work in your favor. You have emotional, mental, and spiritual strengths as well; some are innate talents and others have been developed by the circumstances you have lived.

PIONEERING

Definition: venturing into that which is unknown or untried <sometimes to prepare the way for others>

Compatible Quality: alertly courageous

Parental Qualities: faith, freedom

Familial Quality: adventurous

Quote: As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography, and lasers on which modern society depends. — Arthur Kornberg (1918-2007) American biochemist

Symbols: 1) the covered wagon; 2) a space capsule