Quotes About Possibility

Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

the sudden awareness of afigure on a ground, whereas the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

Even if things only take such a good turn in one of a thousand cases, my explanation continues, who can guarantee that in your case it will not happen one day, sooner or later? But in the first place, you have to live to see the day on which it may happen, so you have to survive in order to see that day dawn, and from now on the responsibility for survival does not leave you.

To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.

I remember one morning... getting up at dawn... there was such a sense of possibility! You know? That feeling? And... and I remember thinking to myself: 'So this is the beginning of happiness...' 'This is where it starts!' 'And, of course, there'll always be more.' Never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning, It was happiness. It was the moment...

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

Her horizon seemed to her limitless. There were all the places she had not seen;

To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.

The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing a future can be, I think.

Living does mean accepting the loss of one joy after another, not even joys in her case, mere possibilities of improvement.

valid instruction derived from experience can help me if it guides me to my own experiential discovery of any given stroke possibility.

Reimagining your life. Usually when people get Towered, they try to rebuild what they had. It takes a lot of courage to imagine your life might be different.

Having an honest relationship with time is no simple task. First, you have to open up to the possibility that time is your friend, there to help you, and that recording future plans in whatever way you see fit isn't a burden but rather something that strengthens your pursuit of your dreams.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

The little boy in me still believes everything is possible. Mom, you taught me this. And you lied. But so does art and so does hope.

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

Il futuro è come un fiume, così largo e imponente che non si può cambiare né invertirne il corso. Tuttavia, è formato da una miriade di piccoli affluenti che invece è possibile deviare. Puoi cambiare il tuo futuro, perché molte tue azioni dipendono soltanto da te.

Solo intento decirte que mantengas abierto tu corazón. No vale la pena obsesionarte con un amor ideal, pero tampoco debes descartar por completo la posibilidad de que puedas enamorarte en un futuro e alguien de carne y hueso.

Anywhere you would like to go, anything you would like to do, Creativity can take you there.