Quotes About Possibility

Every student is a chance for greatness.

Lo que era no es lo que soy —se dijo—. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.»

1. The consciousness that created the universe dwells within us. 2. We exist in the energy web and are one with it. 3. Consciousness weaves and directs energy. 4. Everything exists for us as a possibility.

We all agree your theory is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being right."* { Niels Bohr }

Such is life. Some days you wake up in Kansas, and some days in Oz. Sometimes the world feels pretty much stuck in place, and you've made your peace with that. Why waste time on silly pipe dreams, when there are socks to darn and pigs to feed? At other times, you look around and see how exciting the world can be, how flexible and arbitrary things are, how easy it might be to cast aside your old life and get to work building the one you really want.

vemödalen n. the fear that originality is no longer possible.

moment of tangency a fleeting glimpse at what might have been.

There would be a new life, and we would be living a new life. It felt like too much to hope for, but not in a bad way, more the kind of thing you stop yourself thinking about for superstitious reasons, because if you let yourself imagine all the details, it's less likely to happen.

Only the dreamer can change the dream...

Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

It seemed possible that one or both of these books might change my life.

Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.

It's never too late to start a happy ending

a tent represented adventures and possibilities, giving you the stars every single night. But a house stayed in one place, safe but always the same.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable

It was a beginning. He was a seed. He could grow.

Coincidence was possible. But what was much more likely was enemy action.

Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate. The way things have been does not have to be the way they continue to be.

I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.

Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.

Inness painted from memory, which is to say that he didn't paint what he saw, but what he remembered. There's a difference. He believed memory was a lens to the soul. It's not the details that matter - the veins on a leaf, say- so much as the implied detail, such as the changing light, the wind, the lone peasant in the distance the sense that something else is going on, some deeper possibilitly ....

When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for the best.