Quotes About Possibility

Robert Kennedy, on his own, left no great legislative legacy, founded no great institution, led no great movement. His most extraordinary accomplishment - and it was extraordinary - was to embody in himself, and create in others, a kind of transcendent yearning for the possibility of redemptive change.

What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

Mitä voikaan tapahtua maailmassa, jossa kaiken väitetään olevan mahdollista?

Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.

I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down. What is impossible for me is possible for God. "With God, everything is possible.

Personally I believe that being an elder can be a real grace. After having seen so much of life and having "made it" in so many ways there is still that possibility of growing into a second childhood, a second naiveté. I think that is quite an exciting possibility and I pray that God will allow you to be reborn in such a new way of being.

A young student reflecting on his own experience wrote recently: When loneliness is haunting me with its possibility of being a threshold instead of a dead end, a new creation instead of a grave, a meeting place instead of an abyss, then time loses its desperate clutch on me. Then I no longer have to live in a frenzy of activity, overwhelmed and afraid for the missed opportunity.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination

The world is but a canvas for our imagination

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?

Though I don't believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present her choice was tolerably discreet […].

He found himself supposing innumerable and wonderful things.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, the possible.

The key difference between what appears to be impossible to us and what is actually possible is a word from our Master!

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.