Quotes About Possibility

We must prepare for as many futures as possible, not merely the ones we prefer.

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.

Just out of curiosity," I said, "is it going to be possible for her to freeze someone's heart and turn them into an ice statue?" Mab looked baffled.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

We had made the exciting discovery that our lives do not need to be limited to past experiences. The future could be challenging and fulfilling as well.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count.

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast. One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping up, coping, what we might call staying alive; the next day we are not.

When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.

Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach. Just around every corner lay something curious and interesting, something I had never before seen or done or known about.

I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Even the damned can dream - infact, it's part of their torment. To escape, even for a second or two, to forget reality and drift, only to be yanked back into the waking world like a fish caught on a line... Yes. In some ways that's even worse than to have no relief at all. That second of two, on awakening, when anything still seems possible

The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass, and tilled earth from the fields beyond. Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar: the month of hyacinth, and bees, and violet, and primrose. It is also the windy month; the month of new beginnings, and I have never felt it so strongly as I feel it now: that sense of possibility; that irresistible lightness.

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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

When you look into your baby's eyes," Lacy said softly, "you see everything you hope they can be… not everything you wish they won't become.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.