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• When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.

  Robert Ringer

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

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• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Joy, Anticipation, Possibility

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• A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Hope, New Horizons

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us and new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about.

  N. T. Wright

  Friday, Easter, Grief

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• 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

  Men, Average, Ideas

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fighting, Progress, Trying

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Inspiration, Inspire

  Bernie S. Siegel (2010). “101 Exercises for the Soul: A Divine Workout Plan for Body, Mind, and Spirit”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like that lightning that comes out of the blue when there's not even a storm going on, just a crazy crack in the sky. With something like that right in front of you, you can't help but feel there's new possibilities out there.

  Marisha Pessl

  Crazy, Blue, Sky

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• The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms.

  David Adjaye

  Frustration, Cities, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

  Ian McDiarmid

  Artist, Kind, Possibility

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• Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that's part of the satisfaction. You will only find meaning in what you struggle with. What you struggle to get good at next may not seem the exact right thing for you at first. With time and effort, however, you will discover new possibilities in yourself-an ability to solve problems, for instance, or to communicate, or to create beauty.

  Atul Gawande

  Struggle, Skills, Effort

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• Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.

  Vivek Shraya

  Children, Book, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

  Zaha Hadid

  Technology, Design, Ambitious

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• When you expand your awareness, your energy flows freely. You're more flexible, balanced, and creative. You view yourself and the world with more compassion and understanding. You have more energy and are open to new possibilities.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Views, Creative

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• I am moved by the desire to see and to be seen, to grow and to unveil the mysteries of life and, at the same time, by the aspiration that life will continue to reveal new mysteries and new possibilities.

  Rod Stryker

  Desire, Mystery, Possibility

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• I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

  Ian Astbury

  Winter, Spirit, Celebration

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

  Jack Kornfield

  Possibility, Capacity

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.

  Bruno Barbey

  Years, Digital, Technique

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• The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

  Tony Wagner

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Music Is, Great Things

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, Country, Games

  "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

  Jane Addams

  Men, Race, Order

  Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press

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• LSD is a unique and powerful tool for the exploration of the human mind and human nature. Psychedelic experiences mediate access to deep realms of the psyche that have not yet been discovered and acknowledged by mainstream psychology and psychiatry. They also reveal new possibilities and mechanisms of therapeutic change and personality transformation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, Unique, Personality

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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