If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential.
Kierkegaard isn't simply saying dreams matter more than money—he's identifying *potential itself* as the superior condition, the state before crystallization. Wealth and power are fixed quantities you can measure and lose, but potential is an inexhaustible interior resource that grows precisely through being engaged with, never depleted by use. Consider the difference between someone who lands their "dream job" and immediately feels trapped by its constraints, and someone working a modest position while burning with awareness of what they might become through effort and imagination. That second person has claimed something the first has surrendered.
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh“It's not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they...”
Will Rogers