Quotes About Opportunity

Now for the other life. The one without mistakes. – LOU LIPSITZ

California, the department store state.

had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.

Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.

As they neared the door at the rear, left open for them by Joftaz, James felt a flush of excitement. No matter how high he might someday rise in the King's service, there was a part of him that would always be Jimmy the Hand.

No, Pug. There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love.

Raymond E. Feist

There's as many fish in the sea as ever came out of it. Fright though you are, you won't have any trouble in hooking another boy-friend.

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

His name was privilege, but hers was possibility.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.

This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.

To recognize the momentousness of what has happened is to apprehend what might happen. Inside the word emergency is emerge; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.

Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.

Life is short, but it is wide. Genevieve Whitman taught me that.

Life is short, but wide.

You can't let fear of hurricanes stop your from putting seeds in the ground, even if they're going to grow tall only to be destroyed.

Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.

Being shut down from our grief and rage deprives us of living our emotional and creative power. The practice of Swamping gives us that power back. We admit and embody the rupture. We roll around on the floor, rend our garments, throw our bodies into it. We experience and savor the full range of our feelings. If we want to live healthy lives as women, we need the space to grieve our asses off as often as we feel moved. Swamping gives us that opportunity.