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Quotes About Possibility

Imagine how different you would be if the history of your world was different,' said the tyger. "There are infinite possible histories of the world, and of yourselves. So you should never stop questioning the world, and everything in it; wondering how it could be different.
~ S.F. Said
To open a gateway between worlds,' said the tyger, in the darkness of the ruin, 'you must first of all see the possibility of a gateway. Then you must make that possibility a reality. You must create it. You will find the power you need inside you, if you go through the doors of creation to the other side.
~ S.F. Said
Hold on to your dreams,' said the tyger. 'They will help you change the world, or create new worlds, for every time you make a choice, that is what you do. And if you can dream of something - then in all of infinity, there must be at least one world in which that dream is real.
~ S.F. Said
I have a right to do whatsoever I like within the limits of possibility, and everything is possible which is not contradictory; consequently the field of liberty is infinite.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Every person, young or old, risks the possibility of their life not turning out as planned. Especially when it comes to marriage. They might find they aren't suited for marriage after all. Or their spouses might die of an early illness. Taking a risk on another person is what marriage is all about.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility.
~ Sadhguru
The very essence of dhyana, or meditativeness, is that you push yourself to the highest possible intensity where, after some time, there is no effort. Now meditation will not be an act, but a natural consequence of the intensity that has been achieved. You can simply be. It is in these absolutely non-compulsive states of existence that the necessary atmosphere is set for the blossoming of an individual into a cosmic possibility. If
~ Sadhguru
The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture—often worse than the actual disaster. So, as long as your inner life is enslaved to external situations, it will remain a precarious condition. There is no other way for it to be. What
~ Sadhguru
our parents gave us just a seed and that became the body. But what the Source of Creation gave us was not a seed in that sense. It gave itself. This is the reason that all the possibilities that the Source of Creation holds are kind of encapsulated in us. Whether that possibility is realized in an individual life or not is questionable, but the possibility is always there.
~ Sadhguru
Though for millennia in India, education was conducted in such a way that it was a possibility for the evolution and blossoming of the individual, over the last few centuries, aberrations have happened to the culture.
~ Sadhguru
The world may be ending, but all I could see was beginnings.
~ Mandy M. Roth
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
~ Marc Chagall
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Not to assume it's impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For it is a thing very possible, that a man should be a very divine man, and yet be altogether unknown.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Do not imagine that, if something is hard for you to achieve, it is therefore impossible for any man; but rather consider anything that is humanly possible and appropriate to lie within your own reach too.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don't imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Jos jokin tuntuu sinusta vaikealta, niin älä ajattele, että ihminen ei voi sitä kestää. Jos sen sijaan jokin on mahdollista ihmisen suorittaa, niin arvele voivasi itsekin siitä selviytyä.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Does that make him ordinary? No. I think he is one of the two most remarkable human beings who ever lived. I don't really care who the other one was—my point is that what we see in Jesus is a human possibility. That's what makes him so remarkable. If he was also divine, then he's not all that remarkable. If he had the knowledge and power of God, he could have done so much more.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Potential has a shelf life.
~ Margaret Atwood
She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.
~ Margaret Atwood
Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are forking all the time, like slow lightning. A road is a process, not a location.
~ Margaret Atwood