Quotes About Possibility

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

Our problem is not one of ignorance; it is one of complacency. We are too quick to accept the life we know and not quick enough to embrace the life we only imagine. We think that events must proceed as we dictate, and that no other voice will ever have meaning but ours

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.

It didn't hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be.

It is not nearly so important to know who you are as who you might be.

Then, Pan, when that's done, maybe I can think about us. In the right way, the way I would like to—not just because of last night or some other night but because there might be a whole lot of nights, maybe even a lifetime. I can think about it because then there will be a future that isn't measured in hours or days.

It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.

I think it is something else. I think we were given a starting point, but nothing more. The future remains undecided. Things may change as events unfold, and we must be ready to change with them.

Besides, reality did not require that you forgo your dreams, and dreams sometimes revealed paths that led to new realities.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don't know how to do it.

And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

It doesn't have to be all down hill from here

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Chances are where you find them

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?

It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history.