Quotes About Possibility

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.

Oh, minha alma não aspira à vida imortal, mas esgota o campo do possível.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.

When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?

you could simply imagine doing the unthinkable, and then, the next thing you knew, there you were doing it. Nothing was out of the question. Anything could happen. You had to do it your way.

Well, such a thing may be, though I cannot now see it" you remove a great barrier to the carrying out and realization by yourself of the new and strange possibilities in store for you.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Anything is possible if you've got enough hordelike will and tolly heart.

Remember: Today's impossibilities are tomorrow's miracles.

The impossible does not describe itself as impossible.

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday

"Can't" never could do anything.

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Y si en vez de planear tanto voláramos un poco más alto?

History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.

By making the decision to accept the possibility of a negative outcome, you circumvent the requirement for absolute certainty of your future comfort and safety.

But there is always one last chance—right?

Restricting choices is not always a bad thing.

From Pessoa: "Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.

When at even-tide the child of want lies down, dirty and hungry, in his squalid home, and hears of prince and princess and fabled gold, then in the dark hovel lighted by its dim flickering candle, his mind springs free from its bonds of poverty and misery and walks in fresh beauty and glowing raiment, strong beyond all fear of hindrance, through that fairy realm where all is possible.