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Quotes About Possibility

A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am not your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.
~ P.C. Cast
Some time ago, he said, --how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I could make a poet out of far less promising material. I could make a poet out of two sticks and a piece of orange peel.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
We must dream our way.
~ Pablo Neruda
Soy prisionero con la puerta abierta, con el mundo abierto.
~ Pablo Neruda
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
~ Pablo Picasso
Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.
~ Pablo Picasso
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not
~ Pablo Picasso
Sve što možeš da zamisliš je stvarno.
~ Pablo Picasso
I didn't know what the future held in store for me, but I felt hopeful.
~ Padma Lakshmi
It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.
~ Pam Grout
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure.
~ Paolo Coelho
just imagine!" I ejaculated.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When you say to me that you can't do this or that, I don't believe it. Whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do. God is the sum total of everything, and His image is within you. He can do anything, and so can you, if you learn to identify yourself with His inexhaustible nature.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
~ Parker J. Palmer
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.
~ Parker J. Palmer
I selected all my books for the possibility of some flare of candles along the road toward illumination or enchantment
~ Pat Conroy
Perhaps' could be spun endlessly into different tales; even telling herself all of them, she would still be none the wiser.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if...What if...' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter.
~ Patrick Hamilton
This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2
~ Dale Carnegie
The world that contains the possibility of evil is the one that also contains the greatest possibility of good. And the question of why God allows evil to happen has to be put against the question of what a world where evil could not happen would be like. It's by working on those questions that people can come to some resolution in their minds about the reality of evil and what it means.
~ Dallas Willard
We should not try to love that person; we should train to become the kind of person who would love them. Only then can the ideal of love pass into a real possibility and practice. Our aim under love is not to be loving to this or that person, or in this or that kind of situation, but to be a person possessed by love as an overall character of life.
~ Dallas Willard
There is then no question of the possibility of interventions in the course of nature, in whatever degree or form. The physical universe is not a closed system. Miracles are possible simply because of that fact.
~ Dallas Willard