Quotes About Possibility

Having read this far, Angela, you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a matter of discipline, really.

In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead.

The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means "two," and the word zweifel, which means "doubt"—suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives.

What great harm depression and stress do to us….compression is what prematurely ages us---compacting us, physically and emotionally, into a feeling of frailty and brokenness. To fight against compression is to open up your life, to create possibility where once there was nothing, but pressure. What if your life belongs to you?

The world had scaled itself down into endless inches of possibility. Her life could be lived in generous miniature.

We can do it, whether it can be done or not.

This has the potential to be a rolling doughnut

Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.

We build the most outrageous castles in the air. Nothing is certain, and everything is possible.

In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible

Limitations are only limited to the limitations of your limit .

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Air represented a confident and free imagination in which everything was possible. Earth he still loved, but only as a place to land on and take off from.

What if . . . instead of saying, this border divides these places. We said, this border unites these places. This border holds together these two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what's unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.

What if the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides places. We said, this border holds together two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.

The fact is, imagine.

Sound like a promise that can never happen.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Storytelling itself is an activity, not an object. Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience….Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we're doing, is not the only possibility. —Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life (2006)

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen.