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. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?
September 23, 2009
Possibilities
Soren Kierkegaard, the famous Danish philosopher wrote in his book Either/Or:
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