potential Quotes

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in... ...

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with... ...

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.