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Quotes About Possibilities

Nada es excepcional. En todo lugar han sucedido todas las cosas, aún las más inverosímiles y raras, porque el mundo es muy viejo y hace largo tiempo ya que no inventa, que no renueva su stock de posibilidades.
~ Unknown
Tessa decided there were two possibilities to explain what had just happened: 1. Skylar was reaching out from the afterlife. 2. She was imagining Skylar was reaching out from the afterlife.
~ Unknown
Ton avenir est fait de choix qui t'appartiennent.
~ Marc Levy
La mayoría de las personas que conocemos no nos inspiran más que indiferencia; de modo que cuando en un ser depositamos grandes posibilidades de pena o de alegría para nuestro corazón, se nos figura que pertenece a otro mundo, se envuelve en poesía, convierte nuestra vida en una gran llanura donde nosotros no apreciamos más que la distancia que de él nos separa.
~ Marcel Proust
We were all reared in a world that concentrated on sin and sinfulness, but I believe that when we come into the eternal world we won't so much be checked for our failures, but we will be asked whether we honored the possibilities that were placed inside us when we were so carefully fashioned out of the clay.
~ John O'Donohue
On the way out to Lawrence's, he thought about Palmer's wild reaction. Was there a little fear there? Hard to tell, with all the other possibilities—anger, bigotry, psychosis.
~ John Sandford
Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought? No, she said quickly. No, I ain't, You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of'em, it's too much.
~ John Steinbeck
Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much.
~ John Steinbeck
By making careful preparations, by foreseeing possibilities, Doc hoped to make this party as non-lethal as possible without making it dull.
~ John Steinbeck
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.
~ John Updike
Consequently, any discussion (including this one) can only be a partial description of possibilities, but a review of several major interpretive frameworks can provide a sense of options. The
~ Unknown
When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Feel your body lying in bed. Straighten it out. Ask yourself, Am I awake now? Do I know that the gift of a new day is being given to me? Will I be awake for it? What will happen today? Right now I don't really know. Even as I think about what I have to do, can I be open to this not-knowing? Can I see today as an adventure? Can I see right now as filled with possibilities?
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?"Read more in A Daughter's Worth Novel
~ Unknown
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?
~ Unknown
God is so much bigger than our 'what ifs' that he can turn them into 'why nots
~ Gary Rohrmayer
You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
~ Lev Grossman
I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.
~ Scott Bakula
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
~ Michael Eisner
No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
~ Michael Grant, Fear
It is the inner strength not to stagnate or grow resistant to change but to stay open to new possibilities.
~ Unknown