Quotes About Potential

Love happens in such a way, Maureen told me. It walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.

Nobody is born evil.

So much in life is about almosts, not quites.

Because you are who you are, the future look happy and bright.

What if Icarus hadn't hurtled into the sea? What if he'd inherited his parent's inventive bent? What might have wrought?

You are wilder than you know.

Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.

All Paul had to do was show her how to make the leap from listener to creator. Teenagers in garage bands were doing exactly that, all over the world; there was no reason Linda couldn't become a songwriter too.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

selfless Scoutmasters gave us their time not because they knew what we'd become, but because they knew what we could become.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.

Don't die with your music still inside you.11

When you chose to prove to yourself how powerful you really are, you have no idea who you will be helping in the future.

if you focus on the known, you get the known. If you focus on the unknown, you create a possibility.

When you are in the sweet spot of the generous present moment, your familiar past and your predictable future no longer exist and now you are ready to create new possibilities in your life.

we are confined in our lives only by the limits of our own beliefs.

Éste es el modelo más realista de un átomo. Materialmente es «nada», pero potencialmente lo es todo.

Since where you place your attention is where you place your energy, then if you keep placing your awareness on your known life, your energy is invested in that familiar life. But if you were to invest your energy in the unknown field of possibilities beyond space and time, and you instead became a consciousness (a thought in quantum potential), you'd be drawing a new experience to yourself.

Just as the material electron expands back to immaterial energy in the quantum field once scientists stop observing it, when you no longer observe your pain, your routine life, and your problems they will turn back into energy—into an infinite number of possibilities, into pure potential.

an immense power behind any individual

If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance,1 then I'm actually more nothing than something! So why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more?

The meditation outlined in the next chapter includes a period where you get to linger in this potent unknown, in the blackness of possibility, and invest your energy into the void of potentials that exist in the present moment. Remember that even though it may look as if there's nothing there, it really isn't just empty blackness; it's the quantum field, and it's just bursting with energy and possibility.