untapped energy Quotes

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.