Quotes About Potential

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

In the world born from him, a person could now become anything.

I wish for all of you that you remain as unfinished as the shoreline along the beach and that you continue to transcend yourselves again and again.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I'm hoping hard for that.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite... Soon, maybe.

Our mind is like a field in which many seeds germinate.

The tendency to judge people in an either/or way—enlightened or not, saint or sinner—makes it difficult to learn from the people we meet, whether or not we consider them "teachers." If we broaden our point of view to consider every person a potential teacher, every encounter will prompt the question "What can I learn from this person?

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

Bloom where you are planted,' the poster reads. But the poster does not tell the whole story. ' plant yourself where you know you can bloom' may well be the poster we all need to see. Or better yet, "Work the arid soil however long it takes until something that fulfills the rest of you finally makes the desert in you bloom.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

My humanity includes not just what I am at the present moment, but what I can be. I am also my future, To exclude the potential from the real, and identify the real only with what is already actualized is another form of reductionism. -Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.

Why not"! That is SO wise. So many things would be possible in this world if you thought "Why not?" all day long.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

I'm just one person. But you are one. One plus the Lord can do mighty things now and again.

William, that she had the capacity to raise these giant, beautiful sails and go.

She was all of herself with him and even felt there was room for her to become more. When he rested his eyes on her, it was without judgment or expectation, and in that space, Sylvie felt her potential: for bravery, brilliance, kindness, joy. All of these sails rested on the deck of her ship; they were hers, but she hadn't seen them before.

Her smile was provoking. Where had she learned to smile like that? The woman who arrived at his castle wouldn't smile like that. She'd been a furled rosebud, fragrant with potential. This Sidonie was a full-blown flower, sweet-scented and luscious.

Each person has a literature inside them.

At least half of what we call hope, I believe, is simply the sense that something can be done. Once,