A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the vast potential within each person that often remains untapped.
Katherine Anne Porter highlights the idea that each individual possesses immense capabilities and opportunities that are frequently not fully realized. She suggests that humanity is only scratching the surface of its true potential, implying that there is much more we can achieve if we dare to explore and strive for greater fulfillment in our lives.
Themes
PotentialFulfillmentCapabilityAchievementSelf-Discovery
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a motivational speech to inspire people to pursue their passions.
More from Katherine Anne Porter
All quotes →Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
Now and again thousands of memories _x000D_ converge, harmonize, _x000D_ arrange themselves around a central idea _x000D_ in a coherent form, _x000D_ and I write a story.
Katherine Anne PorterRead
Similar quotes
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce LeeRead
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
Thomas JeffersonRead
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.
Sun TzuRead
Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.
Isaac SternRead
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
William Dean HowellsRead
If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.
Wayne DyerRead