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Quotes About Possibility

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
~ Rollo May
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
~ Sharon Salzberg
We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.
~ Mike Lupica
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
~ Unknown
And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.
~ Philip Yancey
I realize that I can laugh, that it is possible to be happy, that laughter and hope can come back to me.
~ Philippa Gregory
They labor quietly, endure privations and pains, live and die, and throughout everything see the good without seeing the vanity. I had to love these people. The more I entered into their life, the more I loved them; and the more it became possible for me to live, too. It came about not only that the life of our society, of the learned and of the rich, disgusted me—more than that, it lost all semblance of meaning in my eyes.
~ Phillip Lopate
And such men, you know, before finding out in what way something they desire can exist, put that question aside so they won't grow weary deliberating about what's possible and not.
~ Plato
For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my dear comrade.
~ Plato
Isn't there still one other possibility ... ," I said, "our persuading you that you must let us go?
~ Plato
I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.
~ Plato
If you must doubt something, doubt your limits!
~ Price Pritchett
Ah. A virtual impossibility. Just the sort of challenge Ruwach loves
~ Priscilla Shirer
If you have faith the size of the smallest seed, nothing will be impossible for you.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Good thoughts yield good things. The future, no matter how dark it seems, can always change, as long as the thoughts change.
~ Unknown
This may only be Act One!
~ R.L. Stine
What's possible?' she asked. 'Anything,' he said absently. 'But that's not what I was talking about. Oh, hello, Claire. You're in good time. I need an extra pair of hands.' 'As long as I keep them attached,' she said, which earned her a startled stare. The things you say to me, you'd think I was some sort of monster.
~ Rachel Caine
Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.'" "Stupid
~ Rachel Caine
Jess. Khalila drew his gaze back to her. What is it Scholar Wolfe used to tell us? 'Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
~ Rachel Caine
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that special person. That person to spend Christmas with or grow old with or just take a nice silly walk in Central Park with
~ Rachel Cohn
Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.
~ Rachel Cohn
Prayer or not, I want to believe that, despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible for anyone to find that one special person.
~ Rachel Cohn
You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it's right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible?
~ Rachel Cohn