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"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
— Gloria Steinem
— Gloria Steinem
"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
— John Lennon
— John Lennon
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
— Mahatma Gandhi
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."
— Alasdair Gray
— Alasdair Gray
"A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe
none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
"All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)
"We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
— Emily Dickinson
— Emily Dickinson
"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
""This is what it means to be an adventurer in our day: to give up creature comforts of the mind, to realize the possibilities of imagination. Because everything around us says no you cannot do this, you cannot live without that, nothing is useful unless it's in service to money, to gain, to stability. The adventurer gives in to tides of chaos, trusts the world to support her - and in doing so turns her back on the fear and obedience she has been taught. She rejects the indoctrination of impossibility." "
— hib & kika, off the map
— hib & kika, off the map
"A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other places we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. All I want is you is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)
"We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems."
— Will Eisner
— Will Eisner
"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."
— Jean Houston
— Jean Houston
"How can a great author who said that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE say that. Ofcourse there are things in life which are impossible for more than just an individual. First thing about life, life is impossible to exist forever. And throughout his life, did he ever slammed a revolving door? Did he tried to shut the window which is frameless? Did he opened the locked door without handle. Did he drove a car without gas? Did he ever had a conversation with a person who is dead? Did he ever did a sky diving without parachute?
I don't think so because all things are impossible. I can't even meet the author face-to-face or do eye-to-eye contact because that is also impossible, he's dead."
— Amanullah Ashraf
I don't think so because all things are impossible. I can't even meet the author face-to-face or do eye-to-eye contact because that is also impossible, he's dead."
— Amanullah Ashraf
"But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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"So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible"
— Mildred D. Taylor (The Land)
— Mildred D. Taylor (The Land)
"Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama."
— Franz Kafka (The Zurau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka)
— Franz Kafka (The Zurau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka)
"...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent."
— Benjamin Zander
— Benjamin Zander
"Coordinating there
Events and objects with remote events
And vanished objects. Making ornaments
Of accidents and possibilities."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire)
Events and objects with remote events
And vanished objects. Making ornaments
Of accidents and possibilities."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire)
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possibility
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"Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do I have reckless instincts? Everything is possible, everything, even the most sordid and undignified things."
— Robert Walser (Jakob von Gunten)
— Robert Walser (Jakob von Gunten)
"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do."
— Sarah Manguso
— Sarah Manguso
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