Quotes About Possibility

beyond the end of the world

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

Podía suceder cualquier cosa en aquel instante. La verdad es que hay momentos en los que la omnipresente y lógica red de las secuencias causales se rinde, cogida por sorpresa por la vida, y baja al patio de butacas, mezclándose con el público, para dejar que en el escenario, bajo las luces de una libertad vertiginosa y repentina, una mano invisible pesque en el infinito regazo de lo posible y, entre millones de cosas, sólo permita que ocurra una.

Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, and if one sees with sufficient clarity just what has to be changed.

Chance; pure chance. But chance was a dull explanation because it denied the possibility of the paranormal, and people were often disappointed by dull explanations. Mystery and the unknown were far more exciting because they suggested that our world was not quite as prosaic as we feared it might be. Yet we had to adjure those temptations because they lead to a world of darkness and fear.

Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.

That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far.

You can't go through life saying "I hate mustard" because that is shutting off the possibility of change.

Nobody is so bad that there is no chance of change.

It is not at all foolish to hope for miracles

Everything was so clear-cut to the student mind; the truth was passionately proclaimed, rather than half-believed in, which was how more experienced people thought of things. The more experienced had generally discovered that there were no longer any privileged, exclusive truths – there were just the various shades of possibility.

Alain de Botton has written a book called How Proust Can Change Your Life, a title that I suspect was devised with at least some tongue in cheek but that speaks, nonetheless, to a very real possibility of personal transformation. The title of this book is in a way lighthearted homage to de Botton's remarkable book.

Even though are canvass was small, still we could paint a masterpiece.

Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

The idea that there might be limits to growth is for many people impossible to imagine. Limits are politically unmentionable and economically unthinkable. The culture tends to deny the possibility of limits by placing a profound faith in the powers of technology, the workings of a free market, and the growth of the economy as the solution to all problems, even the problems created by growth.

Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — HELEN KELLER (1880–1968)

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Always your first question to yourself should be, "What would I be doing now if it were really impossible for me to fall at – whatever it is: traveling, modeling, writing, farming?

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

I never did,' said the little girl, but in a less doubtful tone than she had ever used with that phrase so familiar to her. A dim notion was growing in her mind that the fact that she had never done a thing was no proof that she couldn't.