Quotes About Potential

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

The brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost. (Letters on Life)

If we allow an encounter with a given thing to be shaped by this expectation that it may last, every such experience will be spoiled and falsified, and ultimately it will be prevented from unfolding its most proper and authentic potential and fertility.

One ought to turn the most extreme possibility inside oneself into the measure for one's life, for our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.

For our life is vast and can accommodate as much future as we are able to carry.

Do you see . . . So this is what one ought to be capable of at some point. Not to wait (which is what has been happening until now) for powerful things and good days to turn you into something but to preempt them and to be it yourself already: this is what one ought to be capable of at some point.

Everything that makes you into more than you have ever been, in your best moments, is right.

Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility forming and creating, as a particularly happy and pure way of living.

Something is true only next to something else, and I always think the world has been conceived of with sufficient space to encompass everything: that which has been does not need to be cleared from its spot but only needs to be gradually transformed, just as whatever is yet to occur does not fall from the skies at the last moment but resides always already right next to us, around us and within our heart, waiting for the cue that will summon it to visibility.

All boundaries down, freedom was not only the recognition of necessity, it was the recognition of possibility.

Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Every wall is a door.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.