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41 " Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone. "
― Eileen Wilks , Mortal Ties (World of the Lupi, #9)
42 " You Hang on to your pain like it means something; like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit, so let it go. Infinite Possibilities and all you can do is whine." " Well, what am I supposed to do?" " What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard; You're alive! "
43 " Every morning, the sun rises with endless possibilities that give you endless opportunities to begin again and to create a brand-new life. "
― Debasish Mridha
44 " I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty. "
45 " For true liberation, you do not need to fight. You simply have to change your thoughts and drift away from conformity, comfort, security, and certainty of life and embrace and enjoy the possibilities and magnificence of the uncertainty of life. "
46 " Learn from your past, use the possibilities of the present moment, and let the future open the doors of opportunity. "
47 " The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty. "
48 " Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem. "
49 " When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future. "
― Aberjhani , Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
50 " Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows how to command, the more urgently one covets someone who commands, who commands severely—a god, prince, class, physician, father confessor, dogma, or party conscience. From this one might perhaps gather that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, may have owed their origin and above all their sudden spread to a tremendous collapse and disease of the will. And that is what actually happened: both religions encountered a situation in which the will had become diseased, giving rise to a demand that had become utterly desperate for some " thou shalt." Both religions taught fanaticism in ages in which the will had become exhausted, and thus they offered innumerable people some support, a new possibility of willing, some delight in willing. For fanaticism is the only " strength of the will" that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain, being a sort of hypnotism of the whole system of the senses and the intellect for the benefit of an excessive nourishment (hypertrophy) of a single point of view and feeling that henceforth becomes dominant— which the Christian calls his faith. Once a human being reaches the fundamental conviction that he must be commanded, he becomes " a believer." Conversely, one could conceive of such a pleasure and power of self-determination, such a freedom of the will [ This conception of " freedom of the will" ( alias, autonomy) does not involve any belief in what Nietzsche called " the superstition of free will" in section 345 ( alias, the exemption of human actions from an otherwise universal determinism).] that the spirit would take leave of all faith and every wish for certainty, being practiced in maintaining himself on insubstantial ropes and possibilities and dancing even near abysses. Such a spirit would be the free spirit par excellence. "
51 " When you have faith in yourself, the possibilities are endless. "
52 " The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good. "
― Brian Tracy
53 " I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil in the end, fantasy and fate. My life is that of wondrous enchantment, a place of endless possibilities and dreams, where inspiration is found in the oddest of places. I aspire to inspire, and someday I will change the world, "
― Andrew Kendall , The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
54 " Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
55 " The deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space. "
― Curtis Tyrone Jones , Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny
56 " Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual. "
― Anne Carson , Eros the Bittersweet
57 " So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing? "
― Peter Wohlleben , The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
58 " Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in our arts, languages, sciences, technologies, businesses, governments, and so on—it is clear that we are a profoundly creative species. Yet many of us only access a smidgen of our creativity. "
― Scott Edmund Miller
59 " Most people accept living unhappy lives because it is the only way they know, they refuse to be open to the new emerging possibilities and refuse to make positive changes. Because they are afraid of being outside their own comfort zone and don’t risk anything, they live lives that are far less fulfilling than they could actually have. "
― Dragos Bratasanu , Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building
60 " Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means " to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it. "