Quotes About Potential

Most of us have two lives. The life we live , and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance

Don't think too small about what God could do in your life—be prepared for God to do a big thing.

God sees us—someone worth dying for. God loves us, but we too often see ourselves as unloved. God sees us as chosen and accepted, but we may see ourselves as rejected. God sees us from the perspective of who He created us to be, but we too often see ourselves from our limitations instead of our possibilities.

Heavenly Father, give me a vision of all You want to do in my life. Help me to not think too small, even when I pray. I want to be available to whatever You have for me and not limit Your blessings by being unprepared to receive them. Enlarge my heart and mind to understand how You can take what I have and expand it beyond what I can imagine.

The world is full of talented people.

So few people know what they're capable of.

Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and remind you who you could be with a little work.

I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.

How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn...I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn.

Ah, but never underestimate the power of a dismissed dream. I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

But we all have some largeness in us, don't we, Ana?

Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.

It almost bereaves me to think of unrealized potentials dying inside, the small miscarriages of self. I

Her silver button) reminding me of the destiny I always believed was inside of me, waiting. How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it - the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn. I've been filled with a hunger to grow this seed my whole life... That's why I was born for (abolition)... I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn...

I knew that there was a largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world.

is new potential in search of ripening and I am ripening in search of new potential.

couldn't have explained then how the oak tree lives inside the acorn or how I suddenly realized that in the same enigmatic way something lived inside of me—the woman I would become—but it seemed I knew at once who she was.

One night sitting beside the Greek shore, Shirley thinks to herself, I've allowed myself to lead this little life when inside me there is so much more...That's where Shirley Valentine disappeared to. She got lost in all this unused life.

Las notas musicales son sólo cinco, pero sus melodías son tan numerosas que no podemos oírlas todas. Los colores primarios son sólo cinco, pero sus combinaciones son tan infinitas que no podemos verlas todas. Los gustos son sólo cinco, pero sus mezclas son tan variadas que no podemos saborearlas todas.

As oportunidades multiplicam-se à medida que são agarradas.

No hay más de cinco notas musicales, y sin embargo, las combinaciones de estas cinco dan lugar a más melodías de las que nunca se podrán oír.

Perform your calculations for everything liable to calculation, but also think very deeply about what people are capable of.

They are beautiful. They have so much potential. They are capable of so much, every single one of them. We have no idea the things they can do. My job is to make sure their lives aren't wasted. -Anthony Amato

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.