#luck

There is nothing like love. You should try it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all. ↗

— Folk Rhyme

#marriage #marriage

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #kingdom #marriage-supper #mozart #mustard-seed

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. ↗

— Jane Austen

#luck #marriage #marriage

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#change

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#luck #art

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#death

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#magic #science #science

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#remember

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#prison