Potential proverbs

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◆ Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

- Fred Rogers99

◆ 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, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.

- John O'Donohue99

◆ Potential has a shelf life.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

- William Blake99

◆ All we are not stares back at what we are.

- W.H. Auden99

◆ The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

- Robert Fritz99

◆ It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

- Ella Fitzgerald99

◆ A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

- Confucius99

◆ What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

- James E. Faust99