#potential

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

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Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac. ↗

— Keith Ablow

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True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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

— W.H. Auden

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! ↗

— Anne Frank

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