#impossibilities

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

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Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#capacities #impossibilities #opportunities #our #stretched

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

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The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ↗

— Aristotle

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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ↗

— Charles W. Chesnutt

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Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. ↗

— Charles Wesley

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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