Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life."
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Possibility
631 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
"One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing."
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"Whether you believe you can or not, you're right."
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"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
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"There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities."
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"What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities."
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"Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed."
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."
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"To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something."
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"Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited."
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"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
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"The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair."
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"Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is there possibility of a group discount?"
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"All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can."
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"The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one "sees."
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"Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities."
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"Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons."
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"The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination."
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"Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities."
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"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."
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"I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities."
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