Quotes About Possibilities

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future."

and so the preacher talks about the tragedy of someone dying so young, of a life ended too soon, of possibilities never realized.

Jung called the Shadow 'the seat of creativity'. Embracing the Shadow means opening yourself up to possibilities, letting go of fixed certainties about the Self and the world. It means engaging with complications and conflicts, which are necessary aspects of all creative work.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taking.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Ella no ve el punto en preguntarse. Esta es nuestra vida, no hay caso en preguntarse qué pasaría si… Nadie te puede dar las respuestas. Trato, de verdad, pero es difícil para mí aceptar esa forma de pensar. Siempre me estoy preguntando acerca de los ¿Y si…? sobre el camino no tomado.

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Ahora no es el momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.

Hope cannot exist in the past. That's called regret. Hope can exist only in the future. Faith connects us to the future. It also shifts the parameters of our limitations. When we have assurance in things seen, we are limited by what we have, by what we know, and by what we can prove. When we have assurance in things not seen, we now add to our resources everything that exists in the realm of mystery, uncertainty, and endless possibilities.

When we select a partner, we commit to a story, yet we remain forever curious. What other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peak at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.

What does sex mean for you?" "How was sex treated in your family?" "What are the important events that shaped your sexuality?" "What would you like to experience most with me sexually, and what are you most afraid of?" They spark conversations that are provocative and inspiring, that focus on possibilities rather than on problems.

Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion.

As children we have the opportunity to play at other roles; as adults we often find ourselves confined by the ones we've been assigned or the ones we have chosen. When we select a partner, we commit to a story. Yet we remain forever curious: What other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peek at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.

When we select a partner, we commit to a story. Yet we remain forever curious: what other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peek at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.

so-called leadership is characterized by a pathological reacting to the impressions of the moment and a total lack of any understanding of the command machinery and its possibilities.4 Halder told Lieutenant-General Kurt Dittmar of OKH that Hitler 'was a mystic, who tended to discount, even when he did not disregard, all the

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other's phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they were, they could not bear the crude weight, the rank smell and the ripe taste of real flesh. It is always a dangerous experiment to act out a fantasy; they had undertaken the experiment rashly and had failed…

the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way.