If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Topics: Power Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Wishes Quotes

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is...

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is...

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not...

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not...

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my...

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished...

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished...

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you...

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you...

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true...

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true...

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire...

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire...

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting...

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting...

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they...

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in lifes relationships, just as the...

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in lifes relationships, just as the...

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily...

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete...

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete...

Oh Dear God! Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one?...

Oh Dear God! Why wouldn't you allow those two consuming fires to be only one?...