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Quotes About Possibilities

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.
~ Francis William Aston
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
~ Robert Musil
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
~ John Ortberg
You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost. (Letters on Life)
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ? is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.
~ Ravi Zacharias
My gosh, if you're going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would've talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
~ Ray Bradbury
The adventure is its own reward—but it's necessarily dangerous, having both negative and positive possibilities, all of them beyond control.
~ Joseph Campbell
It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.
~ Joyce Meyer
The Lord sees things differently than we often do. We see problems, but He sees possibilities. We see messes, but He sees miracles. We see endings, but He sees new beginnings. We see pain and pressure, but He sees spiritual growth.
~ Joyce Meyer
No hay manía más funesta, ni capricho más peligroso, que la especulación o la conjetura sobre los caminos que no tomamos.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
A glass of water, Mr. Wizard? Certainly. Still or sparkling? Ice or lukewarm? Lemon or lime? French or Italian? When Hamilton had added, Bathroom or kitchen?
~ Jude Watson
One might wonder what use 'opening up possibilities' finally is, but no one who has understood what it is to live in the social world as what is 'impossible', illegible, unrealizable, unreal, and illegitimate is likely to pose that question.
~ Judith Butler
but you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.
~ Judy Blume
Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see creator as the literal term for artist. I am suggesting you take the term creator quite literally. You are seeking to forge a creative alliance, artist-to-artist with the Great Creator. Accepting this concept can greatly expand your creative possibilities.
~ Julia Cameron
We are faced with insurmountable opportunities.
~ Walt Kelley
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
~ Walt Kelly
practice in elemental and unmistakable ways. He is wonderful in his teaching because he opens up new possibilities that were thought to be impossible.
~ Walter Brueggemann
It is of great importance for a student of Old Testament theology to notice that in every period of the discipline, the questions, methods, and possibilities in which study is cast arise from the sociointellectual climate in which the work must be done. (p. 11)
~ Walter Brueggemann
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
~ Walter Dean Myers
The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is "the dizziness of freedom," and my choice is made in fear and trembling.
~ Walter Kaufmann
The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert." Such a mind, he added, is "open to all possibilities" and "can see things as they are." Suzuki
~ Warren Berger