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Quotes About Possibility

India said, 'But Mrs. Moskowitz, it just won't work. I still have to find a proper salaried position. I have to cover my expenses. Pay my rent.' 'You will stay with us.' 'Thank you. Truly. But it would be impossible.' Mrs. Moskowitz reached across the table. She covered India's hand with her own. 'With all respect, my dear India,' she said, 'I look to God to tell me what is possible. Not to you.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what
~ Jennifer Egan
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.
~ Jennifer Egan
I wider that all the time - what will happen next" Kitty says. "sometimes, I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think, like, where will I be standing when I look back? Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... Or what?
~ Jennifer Egan
She says, My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head. It leads wherever you want it to go, she says.
~ Jennifer Egan
If I could imagine the past with compassion, why couldn't I breathe hope into an imagined future?
~ Jennifer Finney Boylan
All these explanations, and more, had been offered to Arthur. He could choose from among them whichever he liked, like drawing a card from a deck.
~ Jennifer Haigh
I'm not your girl" "You could be." "Yeah and I could also tattoo an anorexic pterodactyl on my navel, but I'm not planning on do that, either
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Our minds have a way of tricking us into thinking we have two options when there are really seven.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
White space. Blank canvas. Intimidating, but thrilling beyond belief. Anything can happen. When was the last time her art mattered?
~ Jennifer McMahon
The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
~ Jennifer Niven
Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)
~ Jennifer Niven
If anyone can make it to another world, it's Theodore Finch.
~ Jennifer Niven
Maybe. Maybe not. Whether it's filler or not, I'm pretty glad to be here." If there's anything I've learned, it's that you need to make the most of it. "It mattered enough for you not to jump.
~ Jennifer Niven
The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing" -Finch
~ Jennifer Niven
Now. Close the book. But first—remember to open yourself up to love and possibility, to almostness and maybe. Use your voice. Let others in. Choose your future. Choose your body. Choose yourself. And go out there and write your life.
~ Jennifer Niven
But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?
~ Jennifer Niven
Yes, ever since that time I began looking upward and awaiting their arrival. Either they will transform my monotonous and boring life completely, or they can take me away with them. Is there an alternative?
~ Emile Habiby
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Dwell in possibility. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickenson
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
~ Emily Dickinson
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
~ Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
~ Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility— A fairer House than Prose— More numerous of Windows— Superior—for Doors— Of Chambers as the Cedars— Impregnable of Eye— And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky— Of Visitors—the fairest— For Occupation—This— The spreading wide of narrow Hands To gather Paradise—
~ Emily Dickinson