#chances

Life is not a matter of chance...it is a matter of choice. ↗

— Ka

#chances #changes #choices #goals #life

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#brave #chances #courage #fail #grow

Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#discerning-whispers #fate #inspiration #promptings #signs

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#second-chances #life

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. ↗

— Jamie Ford

#missing #past #present #wanting #life

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#regrets #life

Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#life-lessons #taking-chances #life

Chances are like criticism; few like to take it, some love to give it, yet most never see it. ↗

— Carl Henegan

#criticism #love

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#third-wheel #chance

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#taking-chances #dreams