Quotes About Possibility

I judge people by what they might be--not are, nor will be.

black? She was beginning to think that she might be able

Isn't it in his or her nonmastery or incompleteness that we see a possible place for ourselves in his or her affections – that is, that we glimpse the possibility that we may be able to do something for that person, be something to that person? In this sense, we perhaps love not what they have, but what they do not have; moreover, we show our love by giving what we ourselves do not have.

so many of us are leading limited lives not because we have to but because we think we have to.

If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

On a good day this is how we live. This is love. This is what life is. The possibility of finding root, safety and nurturing in a new season.

They live in the gap between what's right and what's possible.

Old preconceptions were in tatters, old loyalties were obsolete. Whole societies were paralyzed by the mind-blasting vistas of absolute possibility.

A race without curiosity will never explore every possibility

The forces of chaos, I had learned, were only *enemy forces if you attempted to resist them. The moment you accepted the idea that your life could, and probably would, veer off in an implausible new direction at any given moment, those forces started working *for you. Because if anything was possible...well, then *anything was possible.

Grace does not preclude holiness, but makes it possible. Holiness springs from the fountain of grace.

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opens for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

All things are possible through invitation and love.

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

It's never too late while you're breathing.

here. Salvation consists in the possibility, given by God and realized by Christ, that justice is victorious in love and love in justice. And

Zinn is writing in response to the timeless questions that burn within anyone who cares about creating a more just society and world. Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How do you remain hopeful?

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that "After midnight, all things are possible.

I've never given much thought to grants but now that LeRoi Jones has a Guggenheim I have to consider the possibility of a new era, for good or ill. So if you're sitting down there on a bundle of loose cash I'd appreciate any and all advice as to how I might lay my hands on some of it. - in a letter to Richard Scowcroft dated 5/13/1965

Finding meaning in life is not about looking for a specific goal. That is a fruitless path. It is about seeking a life path that is the right one for you. Decide on the way you desire to live and do all you can to create that life. Only you can define what pathway is best for you and make choices in that direction. That being said, everything is possible, once you strive towards it.

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.