Quotes About Possibility

I was suddenly aware, almost in a panic – a joyful panic – of the wealth of possibility out in the world, and also within myself. My

It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity, you'll conceive of possibility differently from someone raised in a wooded valley or among the canyons of a big city. Or

Don't plan it, don't overthink it, just let it happen, you've got to find a way to bridge the chasm from here to there, from this unthinkable present to some unthinkable future . . .

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future. The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul. The future changes direction based on those things.

Thanks to the choice you made, another future was set in place. And the choice you have yet to make, will decide another...

If Man had taken a different path, might, he not, in time to come, have been as great as Dog?

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Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.

Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.

That which can be imagined need never be lost.

He gave a moment's consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered shirt), but he decided to forgo cleanliness in favor of making a fast exit.

And why not? The world made miracles like this every moment of every day: egg into chick, seed into flower, maggot into fly. Now man into fox? was that possible? Oh yes, said the House of the World. Yes, and yes, and always yes-

Es ist nicht bewiesen, aber es ist wahrscheinlich und wenn es wahrscheinlich ist, dann war es wahrscheinlich so.

To build a House of Jerky is to triumph against the odds, to construct a nitrate-filled monument to possibility and individual perseverance. Dexter Choi was an outlaw. He faced down fate and flopped a full house.

Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility

Every state is different,' Lumbly was saying. 'Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you'll see the breadth of the country before you reach your final stop.

The future? The future was the clay in their hands.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

Literature can remind us that not all ife is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn't know if the somewhere even exists yet. It is still to be created. A Galápagos of the imagination. A whole new theory of who we are. Don

But even if there's a chance we can save her, we have to try

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)