Quotes About Possibility

The present can change the past, and the future can change the present.

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you're so engrossed in what you're doing you don't notice—it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos. The

Why avoid, when avoidance necessarily and inevitably poisons the future? Because the possibility of a monster lurks underneath all disagreements and errors. Maybe the fight you are having (or not having) with your wife or your husband signifies the beginning of the end of your relationship. Maybe your relationship is ending because you are a bad person.

You could be more than you are." When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future.

El punto negro en la parte blanca y el blanco en la parte negra indican la posibilidad de transformación: solo cuando todo parece seguro puede irrumpir lo desconocido de forma brutal e inesperada.

There is little more terrifying than the possibility that you could come to a crisis point in your life when you need every faculty you possess, at that moment, to make the decision properly, only to find you have pathologized yourself with deceit and can no longer rely on your own judgment. Good luck to you, because nothing but luck will then serve to save you.

And how can we possibly communicate with each other intelligibly about that attempt, trade information about the most effective conceptualizations, approaches, and strategies? The answer to that, as far as I can tell, is by communicating through stories about what is and, equally, what could be. And what that implies is that if possibility is the ultimate element of reality with which we contend, then it is stories that hold the wisdom that we most need to know.

El presente puede cambiar el pasado y el futuro puede cambiar el presente.

The Land You Know, the Land You Do Not Know, and the Land You Cannot Even Imagine

The world of possibility begins to actualize itself with such instinctual, embodied action, unconscious and uncontrollable.

It was impossible for me not to conclude that some of what had reduced her to her monthslong state of moral paralysis was not so much guilt about potentially contributing to the negative effects of human striving on the broader world, as it was the sense of moral superiority that concern about such things brought her (despite the exceptional psychological danger of embracing this dismal view of human possibility).

No eres de forma alguna tan solo lo que ya sabes, también eres todo lo que podrías saber si así lo quisieras.

todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad.

It isn't you I care about, it is who you could be

Despite the fact that the world is a very dark place, and that each of us has our black elements of soul, we see in each other a unique blend of actuality and possibility that is a kind of miracle: one that can manifest itself, truly, in the world, in the relationships we have that are grounded in trust and love.

La aceptación de la información anómala aporta terror y posibilidad, revolución y transformación. El rechazo del hecho insoportable asfixia la adaptación y estrangula la vida.

Change might be opportunity, instead of disaster.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules. You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-. This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study of things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.

anything is possible but probably not that

Un coma era como la muerte, aunque con una posibilidad de despertar, en unas horas o unos días. Una posibilidad.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.