Quotes About Opportunity

Are you ready? he asks. Just remember, there's nothing to be afraid of, anytime, ever. Life is one hundred percent adventure.

I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.

You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

Every day, Helen thought, so many people tap the bull on the shoulder and say, Excuse me. I'm just going to grab your horns.

We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

IF YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be?

YOU COULD LIVE ONE day in your life over again and change the outcome of something that happened that day, what day would it be? This is a question many people have difficulty answering. Not Iris Winters. She knows the day, and she knows exactly how she'd change what happened.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.

YOU HAD TO SEIZE THE MOMENT, ACT ON A GOOD IMPULSE BEFORE EVERYTHING JUST DISAPPEARED.

And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing.

Each day is God's gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

Life is what happens to you while you're failing to plan it.

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

Attraversiamo (meaning Lets cross over in Italian)

your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you're still here.