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Quotes About Possibility

Life is fraught with risks," she said. "All we can do to guard against them is make considered choices. Or we can make no choices at all and remain static in life. Even that is not really possible or without danger, though. Life changes about us and for us whether we wish it or not.
~ Mary Balogh
It may not be finished between us after all, Christina. It may be just beginning.
~ Mary Balogh
What is going to happen between you and me in that time? Are we going to do what we both want to do?
~ Mary Balogh
Tonight she would not believe in tragedies or impossibilities.
~ Mary Balogh
I survived by learning to embrace that black emptiness, and I discovered that actually it was an infinity of light and possibility. I learned that my real self is inner and infinite and indestructible and quite independent of circumstances or labels.
~ Mary Balogh
She wondered how possible it was going to be to start a new life.
~ Mary Balogh
When the bet is placed, he said, a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buyin' the chance to imagine - for one moment at a time - that th enext card I deal will make him rich.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.
~ Mary Karr
our strange cynicism about truth as a possibility has permitted us to accept all manner of bullshit
~ Mary Karr
Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.
~ Mary Oliver
Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.
~ Mary Oliver
I look upon time as no more than an idea, and I consider eternity as another possibility
~ Mary Oliver
only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.
~ Mary Oliver
Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.
~ Mary Oliver
I don't want to live a small life. Open your eyes ... open your life, open your hands.
~ Mary Oliver
What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.
~ Mary Oliver
Sometimes there's only a hint, a possibility. What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason. I hope everyone knows that.
~ Mary Oliver
The World I Live In I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway, what's wrong with Maybe? You wouldn't believe what once or twice I have seen. I'll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one.
~ Mary Oliver
I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.
~ Mary Oliver
Sometimes there are no rules.
~ Mary Oliver
Is the tree as it rises delighted with its many branches, each one like a poem? Are the clouds glad to unburden their bundles of rain? Most of the world says no, no, it's not possible. I refuse to think to such a conclusion. Too terrible it would be, to be wrong.
~ Mary Oliver
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination
~ Mary Oliver
I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs. The world I live in and believe in is wider than that. And anyway, what's wrong with Maybe?
~ Mary Oliver
Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit.
~ Mary Oliver