Quotes About Chance

A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it.

Chance is providence in a cloak.

Danger is opportunity's seer.

Providence turns the wheels of destiny.

You can choose choices but not outcomes.

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes.

You can't choose where you are born, you can't decide who won't leave you, you can't choose much. A life has unchangeable tides the same as history does. But there is still room inside it for choice. For decisions.

It is hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy'.

It all makes sense. You came back here this time not because you wanted to die, but because you want to live. This library isn't falling down because it wants to kill you. It's falling down because it is giving you a chance to return.

Therefore, mathematically...there was no chance at all that [she] could have existed. A zero in ten-to-the-power-of-forever chance. And yet there she was, in front of me, and I was quite taken aback by it all; I really was. Suddenly it made me realise why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.

We all come from randomness. We exist out of uncertainty. Out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.

Mrs Elm's eyes sparkled with sudden life. 'Well, that's the beauty, isn't it? You just never know how it ends.' And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

didn't save you. You were just lucky. But I really think you should ignore feelings like that. That was a moment in your life. You have a lot more days to live. About twenty-four thousand more days to live, probably. That's a lot of moments. You could do many great things in that time. You could read a lot of poetry.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

She remembered something Mrs Elm had told her in the Midnight Library. 'You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

The impossible, I suppose, happens via living.

Hope, in its simplest form, is the acceptance of possibility.

Car accident, drug overdose, drowning, a bout of fatal food poisoning, choking on an apple, choking on a cookie, choking on a vegan hot dog, choking on a non-vegan hot dog, every illness it was possible for you to catch or contract . . . You have died in every way you can, at any time you could.

YaÅŸamla ölüm aras?nda bir kütüphane var dedi. Bu kütüphanedeki raflar sonsuza kadar gider. Her kitap yaÅŸam?? olabileceÄŸin baÅŸka bir hayat? yaÅŸama ÅŸans?n? sunar sana. Farkl? seçimler yapm?? olsan, ÅŸu an nas?l bir hayat?n olaca??n? görürsün... PiÅŸmanl?klar?n? telafi etme ÅŸans?n olsayd?, baz? konularda farkl? davran?r m?yd?n?

you could die in that life, but you won't have died before you enter the life because this Midnight Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it.

You see, everyone's lives could have ended up an infinite number of ways.