Quotes About Possibility

It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility. Understand?

This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices .

We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum. We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

you could die in that life, but you won't have died before you enter the life because this Midnight Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility.

He said that in quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once. In the same place. Quantum superposition.

There was no such thing as impossible. I knew that, because I also knew that everything was impossible, and so the only possibilities in life were impossibilities.

Yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living. And if she was to find a life truly worth living, she realized she would have to cast a wider net. Mrs. Elm was right. The game wasn't over. No player should give up if there were pieces still left on the board.

At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. [...] In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. (p.195)

So, if they believed in themselves—the logic must go—why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely? •

You see, everyone's lives could have ended up an infinite number of ways.

Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

Death is the opposite of possibility.

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from.

We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

Magic can be found everywhere, if you know how to look for it. ... And where there is magic, there was hope.

But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.

Remove this quote from your collection "But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exciting. Yes. I suppose it is. A whole life in front of you. A whole life. You could do anything, live anywhere.

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed. Sloping roofs (and other ways to deal with the rain) and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, – William Shakespeare, Hamlet   I couldn't sleep.

For want of a better word, it is in-between. It is not life. It is not death. It is not the real world in a conventional sense. But nor is it a dream. It isn't one thing or another. It is, in short, the Midnight Library.

If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.