"It's not enough to just live in the world as it is, you have to envision what it can be"
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The subtext is reputation management and coalition-building in one breath. Markle, a public figure whose platform is constantly contested, leans on the least controversial language of change: vision. It’s aspirational enough to welcome everyone and specific enough to shame passivity. Notice what’s missing: “I,” “we,” or any concrete “how.” That omission is strategic. Vision is a safe verb for a celebrity with a global audience; it invites projection. Supporters can hear social justice and institutional reform. Skeptics can file it under motivational talk.
Context matters: an actress turned high-visibility philanthropic brand, speaking from within elite structures while critiquing stasis. The tension is the point. The line tries to resolve it by relocating authority from status to imagination: you don’t need permission to picture a different world. You just need the nerve not to settle for the one you inherited.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Markle, Meghan. (2026, January 15). It's not enough to just live in the world as it is, you have to envision what it can be. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-not-enough-to-just-live-in-the-world-as-it-is-171803/
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Markle, Meghan. "It's not enough to just live in the world as it is, you have to envision what it can be." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-not-enough-to-just-live-in-the-world-as-it-is-171803/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's not enough to just live in the world as it is, you have to envision what it can be." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-not-enough-to-just-live-in-the-world-as-it-is-171803/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.










