Possibility Quotes - Page 31

• South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

  Benjamin Zander

  Country, Lying, Creating Value

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• That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

  Jessi Kirby

  Thinking, Together, Seems

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Suffering, Cogs, Machines

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

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• Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

  Richard Hugo

  Creative, Finals, Looks

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Pages, Canvas

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• What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.
  But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

  Max Barry

  Special, Naked, Body

  Max Barry (2000). “Syrup: A Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.

  Robert Moss

  Spiritual, Struggle, Destiny

  Robert Moss (2014). “The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse”, p.110, New World Library

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• History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Past, Ongoing, Growing

  Elizabeth Grosz (2004). “The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely”, p.254, Duke University Press

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• Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Space, Creative

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

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• The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Machines

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 18, 2013

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• Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle.

  George W. Merck

  War, Study, Logical

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• Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.

  Adyashanti

  Teaching, Meditation, Realization

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• Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

  Rollo May

  Drug, Vivid, Matter

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

  Russell Baker

  Jobs, Science, Moon

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• No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Long, Once In A Lifetime

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Design, Life Worth Living

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• War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Smart, Mean

  "Untold Truths About the American Revolution" by Howard Zinn, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 20, 2009.

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• If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Thinking, Essence

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• My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

  Jason Gray

  Weakness, Modest, Boundless

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• We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.

  James A. Michener

  Future, Believe, Adventure

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• Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

  Paul Kagame

  Inspiring, Technology, Keys

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• It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Ideas, Perspective, Advice

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• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

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• The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

  Timothy Leary

  Revolution, Psychedelic, Nervous

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