“You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with someone’s potential and then blame them for not living up to it. You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with the changed version of them you have in your head, instead of the version they are, right now, in this moment.”— Jamie Varon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“The promise I need you to make is this: We’ll see each other tomorrow. Tonight doesn’t always keep its promises, but tomorrow has potential.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“The only way to make peace with who you are is to make peace with your past. Explore your childhood. Your history. It brought you here and it made you who you are; but is this you at your fullest potential? Do you see love in everything? Is this your purpose?”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation.”— T. S. Eliot, coldbacon.com
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“There are fields inside me, there are flowers growing and rivers flowing to oceans with no end.”— Cold Cave, open.spotify.com
““Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.””— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com
“Talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“What we call the non-revelatory aspects of nature is simply what I call the bureaucracy of biology, which other people call evolution. Our brains are these valves where we only let a little bit through. I think that it's basically nature doing that. In other words it's the bureaucracy of biology tha…”— Paul Laffoley, amazon.com