life's potential Quotes

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.