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• When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities.

  Anita Moorjani

  Steps, Infinite, Ambiguity

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• Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Attitude, Humility, Enemy

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• When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Opponents, Violence

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Elude Us, Long

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• Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

  Jon Miller

  Humanity, Profit, Expanding

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• You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Moments, Appearance

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• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lines, Infinity, Reaching

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

  Ralph Marston

  Regret, Going Away, Done

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• I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

  Kirby Puckett

  Inspirational, Life, Baseball

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• When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Impossible, Kind

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• One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

  Simone Weil

  Choices, World, Worship

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.138, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

  N. T. Wright

  Religious, Jesus, Way

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• Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

  Seth Godin

  True Friend, Feel Better, Giving

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• Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Compassion, Generosity, Life And Death

  Elizabeth Lesser (1999). “The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide”, Random House Incorporated

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• Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

  Jane Hirshfield

  Perception, Words And Music, New Possibilities

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf

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• I live in the realm
  of romantic possibility.

  Stevie Nicks

  Dating, Man Of My Dreams, Realms

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• You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Vision, Would Be, Satisfaction

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• All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Given, One Thing

  "Mission of the University".

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• As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility... always another right answer.

  Dewitt Jones

  Vision, Scarcity, Answers

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• If you can influence the outcome, do the work.
  If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

  Seth Godin

  Outcomes, Influence, Distraction

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• The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Development, World

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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• A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

  Gerry Adams

  Real, Government, Fine

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