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Quotes About Potential

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.
~ Matt Haig
You should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.
~ Matt Haig
Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.
~ Matt Haig
But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere
~ Matt Haig
I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
~ Matt Haig
She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.
~ Matt Haig
Remove this quote from your collection "But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere
~ Matt Haig
she was now proud of and pleased with, a truth she had not only come to terms with but welcomed openly, with every fiery molecule of her being. A truth that she scribbled hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person present tense. A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible. A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.
~ Matt Haig
But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exciting. Yes. I suppose it is. A whole life in front of you. A whole life. You could do anything, live anywhere.
~ Matt Haig
You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.
~ Matt Haig
These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.
~ Matt Haig
Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential. The impossible, I suppose, happens via living. Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But do I want to live? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.
~ Matt Haig
It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers.
~ Matt Haig
Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.
~ Matt Haig
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
~ Matthew Arnold
The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
~ Matthew Arnold
Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.
~ Matthew Ashford
Emerson was right," he told the 1992 Republican National Convention. "We are the country of tomorrow.
~ Matthew Continetti
I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
~ Matthew Fox
The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.
~ Matthew Henry
Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.
~ Matthew Kelly
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
~ Matthew Kelly
Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist and poet, knew the value, power, and need for dreams when he wrote, "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our
~ Matthew Kelly
The first problem is we don't believe holiness is possible. The second problem is we don't believe we can change the world.
~ Matthew Kelly