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Daily Inspiration Quote by Meghan Markle

"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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Markle’s line is a gentle shove disguised as self-help. “It’s not enough” sets a moral baseline: mere survival, or even comfort, is framed as a kind of failure of imagination. That’s a familiar move in celebrity activism, but it lands because it treats optimism as work, not vibe. The phrase “live in the world as it is” names the seduction of accommodation: the daily drift where systems stay intact because people get used to them. Then she pivots to “envision what it can be,” a call that’s less policy prescription than identity cue. You are the kind of person who imagines better; therefore you’re the kind of person who acts.

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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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/.

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"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.

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Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981) is a Actress from USA.

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