Quotes About Opportunity

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.

Jenny Dielman out of the way for good and had been waiting for an opportunity to grab her?

He took a deep breath, glanced at the mountains, then looked at Dean again. Alex: It doesn't matter if you think you're made to have kids, or not, marriage or not. If you've found someone who makes you want all those things, then you don't let the chance go by. (Chapter 14)

When Devon Donovan's family buys Isabelle Cooper's florist shop as an investment, she isn't sure if it's the worst thing that could happen…or her golden opportunity to get the gorgeous billionaire to finally notice her.

It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?

That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

Who of us know what we would have done had circumstances changed and we had the chance to make different choices? I said I honestly don't know.....

you can't get back the day you make a decision that changes everything.

It's as if there's a bridge they need to cross. And it's like crossing over the ocean, Brette.

we choose our actions at the moment when we must

I had been told something like that before. That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

Every door is a study in leaving.

The past was speaking . . . what was the difference now? She had the feeling she'd walked into a house she thought she knew well and discovered a room she hadn't seen before. Maybe it wasn't too late. Maybe they did have a chance.

Is reality exhausted by what is, or does it leave room for all that could be?

In many towns, the library is the only place you can browse through physical books.

Szabo frequently preaches the gospel of the library as the people's university.

Books invite all; they constrain none.

Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky

The future does not happen just by chance.