Quotes About Possibility

My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't, not completely. If a self-sufficient farming community has survived here, it remains a possibility elsewhere.

No, you shouldn't. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world than no and yes.

What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace.

motherless girl will come up wanting in some respects, but in my opinion she has a freedom unknown to other daughters. For every womanly fact of life she doesn't get told, a star of possibility still winks for her on the horizon.

There he'd found the pasteboard notebook: the most beautiful book ever, it could become anything.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

I heard laughter and looked up. Some kids at the terminal next to me, playing an online game. I wondered for a moment how I had gotten here. And I wondered if maybe this is what Tatsu had meant when he said I could never retire. That I would inevitably ruin every other possibility.

It is our imagination that gives shape to the universe.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Thinking about the world as it isn't, but might be or might have been, is called counterfactual thinking.

human possibility, awash in material abundance. As a society, we have achieved what our ancestors could, at most, only dream about, but it has come at a great price.

the art of the possible.

Since you have no choice but to begin in uncertainty, you must learn to tolerate uncertainty and, if possible, to turn it into excitement.

Inspiration and confidence and conviction and craft and knowledge are not what make writing possible. It's exactly the other way around. Writing makes them possible.

fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence.

Goethe taught, "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be." –Goethe

Live out of your imagination, not your past.

Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action. It's the ability to see beyond our present reality, to create, to invent what does not yet exist, to become what we not yet are. It gives us capacity to live out of our imagination instead of our memory.

There can be miracles when you believe Though hope is frail It's hard to kill Who knows what miracles You can achieve? When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe

The best futures get created in the present moment.