Best possibility & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.”

World Mind Self Moments Humanity Possibility Divine Buddhism Western Clouds Gray Shade Intervention Incarnation Divine Intervention Shades Of Gray

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has forgotten them and that they can't rise because of their color.. we can only build... with faith in ourselves and with self-reliance, believing in our own possibilities, that we can rise to the highest in God's creation.”

People Believe Self Helping Teach Creation Possibility Color Highest Forgotten Self Reliance Godly Reliance God's Creation

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.”

Life Self Life Is Alive Wonderful Possibility

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”

Knows Real Self Hate Sex Loss Grief Secret Forever Possibility Metaphor Vampire Agency Lasting Flexible Love Hate Stagnation Real Self Forever Love Sex Change

Author:Kelly Link

“What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.”

Ifs Important Self Levels Practice Support Possibility Buddhism Discovery Deserve Seeking Self Discovery Buddhist Supportive Etiquette What's Important

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.”

Needs Self Existence Awareness Possibility Buddhism Discovery All Things Self Discovery Buddhist Limitless Etiquette Narrow-minded Limitless Possibilities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing I Can Book Self Feelings Dream Beautiful Moving My Own One Thing Possibility Type Sentences Rising Someday Mentor Paragraph Typewriters Great Writers Rising Up

Author:Gina Berriault

“The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.”

Firsts Heart Self States Lying Courses Secret Possibility Kissing Lips Myth Electric Gifted Signals Psychedelic Crude Rapture First Kiss Sweetheart Staples Nonsensical Change Of Heart

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.”

Ifs Giving Should Self Dream Wealth Possibility Self Love Blind Temptation Compare Imaginary Indulge Flattering Indulge In Hindrance Imaginary Life

Book:Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau

Source: Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau

“An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.”

Self Body Impossible Possibility

Book:On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3

Source: On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3

“And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.”

Self Sometimes Memories Grief Risk Possibility Letting Go Painful Visiting

Author:Amy Bloom

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step”

“Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.”

Men World Humans War Self Political Possibility Promise Men And Women Unity Debate Clamor Southerner World Love Political Debates Northerners

Author:Aberjhani

“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”

Ifs Wells May Self America Asks Term Possibility Paper Wit Desperate Privacy Autobiography Publicity Outrageous Gimmicks

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“My true self contains every possibility.”

Self Possibility True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.”

Self Gone Possibility Righteous Self Righteous

Author:Mason Cooley

“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

People Ifs Way Needs Self Faces Failing Achieve Possibility Self Respect

Author:Charles A. Murray

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”

Humans Ends Self Left Sex Sides Possibility Despair Expectations Concern Partners Borders Satisfying Requirements Human Relations Human Relationships Disillusion

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”

Ifs Real Self Possibility Development Late Spring Capitalism Fulfillment Suspects Obsolete Actualization Self Fulfillment

Author:Richard Rosen

“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”

Wells Children Long Real Self Lines Views Achieve Danger Possibility Habit Discipline Safe Transformation Permanent Firm Internals Lasting Excess Self Discipline Frustrating Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Blakely

“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”

World Art Stills Self Moments Form Ability Grief Knowing Possibility Color Evolution Shadow Meetings Someday Simplest Liberating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.”

Self Enough Light Sides Dark Views Possibility Happenings Criticism Unfortunate Temperament Skeptic Dark Side Unlucky Rosy Self Criticism Posse

Author:Savielly Tartakower

“Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.”

Giving Self Winning Energy Self Esteem Possibility Esteem New Possibilities

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.”

Self Actors Easy Loses Influence Possibility Self Confidence Trials Rejection

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.”

Mind Self States Dream Possibility Promise Empowerment State Of Mind Dreams Come True Self Empowerment

Author:Lionel

“Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.”

Self Home Opportunity Energy Space Environment Wonderful Possibility Flow Harmony Mirrors Obstacles Inner Self Harmonious New Opportunity Home Environment

Book:Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

Source: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The mind grows by self revelation. In play the child ascertains what he can do, discovers his possibilities of will and thought by exerting his power spontaneously. In work he follows a task prescribed for him by another, and doesn't reveal his own proclivities and inclinations; but another's. In play he reveals his own original power.”

Mind Children Self Play Grows Can Do Possibility Tasks Originals Revelations Inclination Self Revelation

Author:Friedrich Frobel

“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.”

“The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.”

Soul Self Levels Possibility Sense Of Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Each personal limit you exceed, each boundary you cross, verifies that most limits are indeed self imposed. Your potential and possibilities are far greater than you can ever imagine. You are capable of far more than you ever thought.”

Self Greater Imagine Possibility Limits Capable Crosses Boundaries Exceed Verify Personal Limits

Author:Robert J Kriegel

“The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.”

Children Self Possibility Expression Demand Spontaneous Can Not Self Expression

Author:John Dewey

“While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.”

Self Known Possibility Circumstances Aspect Raises Suicide Wounds Consistent Location Compatible Homicide Infliction

Author:Elliott Smith

“If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.”

Ifs World Different Self Body Spiritual Levels Possibility Enlightenment Mortals Probability Brokenness Identification Scarcity

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.”

“Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.”

Love Giving Looks Heart Children Ends Self Life Is Parent Realizing Love Is Brain Possibility Ups & Downs Greatest Gifts Sweet Love Dead Ends Heart And Brain

Author:Doc Childre

“I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks good on paper: sell your books directly and keep a bigger chunk of the profit for yourself. No rejection letters. No hassle with agents. Sounds good, right?”

Knows Looks Book Self Sound Possibility Right Now Paper Letters Bigger Sells Profit Agents Rejection Publishing Chunks Giddy Hassle Rejection Letters

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)”

Writing Believe Kind Self Courses Individual Novel Possibility Superiors Folly Heroic Humankind Oscars Transcendence Grandeur Prevailing Lone Wilde Ada

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.”

Humans Self Problem Given Powerful Technology Possibility Serious Development Population Extinction Density Human Population

Author:Dale Jamieson

“[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.”

Way Self Artist Order Black Figures Fields Possibility Shadow Former Preserves Range Broads Representation Portraits Unlimited Utility Blackness Demonstrating

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.”

Self Form Possibility Determination Protection Aids Therapy Self Determination Extending Reparations Paternalism

Author:Judith Butler

“What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.”

World Needs Self Form Language Support Possibility Affirmation Pronouns Self Affirmation

Author:Judith Butler

“In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.”

Kind Self Reason Play Stories Artist Song Challenges My Own Novel Possibility Objects Approach Models Understood Remains Excellence Artistic Genre Short Story Floating Sense Of Self Reggae

Author:Kwame Dawes

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

Believe Kind Self Motivational Happiness Belief Achieve Self Esteem Possibility Acceptance Trust Confidence Achievement Comfortable Self Improvement Ethics Transformation Happy Self Confidence Tiny Esteem Live Life Flames Believe In Yourself Sparks Love Yourself Being Happy Living My Life Distrust Inner Self True Happiness Trust Yourself Be True To Yourself Inner Life Have Confidence Listen To Your Heart Boost Self Transformation Boost Self Confidence Listen To Yourself Boost Self Esteem Belief In Self Self Esteem And Confidence Self-importance Confidence In Yourself Self Trust Live Life Happy Confidence Boosting Boost Your Confidence Happiness Is A Choice Boost Your Self Esteem I Trust You Belief In Yourself Trust And Respect Inspirational Confidence Self Confidence Motivational Inspirational Self Esteem Inspirational Self Confidence Self Inspirational Proud Of Yourself Trusting You Live For Yourself Trust Respect Trusting Each Other

Author:Golda Meir

“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Inspirational Humans Self Possibility Household Cleaning Housework Chores Self Actualization Actualization Clean House Household Chores

Book:Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

Source: Woman's work: the housewife, past and present

“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”

“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”

Thinking Knows World Humans Kind Real Self Stories Community Fiction Human Nature Identity Possibility Particular Oneself Hungry Real World Introduction

Book:Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

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