Possibility Quotes

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I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I… — Lauren Slater
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the… — Jack Kerouac
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we… — Maya Angelou
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! A new year ... a fresh, clean… — Bill Watterson
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the… — Soren Kierkegaard
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,… — Ralph Ellison
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the… — Orson Scott Card
The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than… — Rebecca Solnit
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded… — C.S. Lewis
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.… — Edward Abbey
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of… — Graham Greene
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when… — Dave Eggers
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in… — Leo Tolstoy

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