“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.” IfsWorldWayGivingFeelsKindMadeStillsSometimesWholeJoyFightingLeftLove IsCasesWiseHappenedPossibilityTownsRichesDestroyedPlentyInstantRedeemedCrumbsStill LifeFighting Back Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.” BelieveMayFactsReligionHappenedPossibilityCapableMiracleBelieve In God Author:Robert M. Price
“I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.” RealStoriesWishInterestingCommonHappenedPossibilityDependsReal Life Author:Sarah Dessen
“It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.” ThinkingHeartDreamSongPassionLevelsHappenedPossibilityFootballMy HeartOne DayMusicianThirdsMy PassionPlaying Football Author:Vance Joy
“Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.” LongDoneWholePoliticalFatherInterestLosesStruggleSeeingGenerationsHappenedNew YorkPossibilityLong TimeChinaDamageJust BeingLife StrugglePolitical Struggle Author:Ai Weiwei
“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.” WayWantWellsChildrenI CanSpeakFeltGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingHappenedPossibilityTerribleDifficultyMy Children Author:Lukas Moodysson
“Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.” KnowsWritingFactsFictionImpossibleHappenedHavensPossibilityScience FictionCome UpNobody Knows Book:To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction Source: To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction
“What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and the deposits they have in the bank, for every $100 of money that there was in 1929, by 1933 there was only $67. The Federal Reserve allowed the quantity of money to decline by a third. While, at all times, it had the possibilities and the power of preventing that from happening.” PeopleMeanHappenedPossibilityHappeningsThirdsAll TimePocketsCashQuantityDeclineReservesPreventingFederal ReserveDeposits Author:Milton Friedman
“There are two basic defenses for an open ending: one is, If you read carefully enough, you'll know what happened. And the other is, That's how life is: things don't come to neat endings, there isn't a "happily ever after." But if you take that second line of defense, then I think you have to make the point that the writer has shown the range of possibility.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoEnoughLife IsLinesHappenedPossibilityDefenseRangeNeatHappily Ever AfterEver After Author:Lorin Stein