#opportunity

Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#explore #happiness #life #opportunity #change

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#saiman #opportunity

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#opportunity

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#lonliness #opportunity #risk #social-anxiety #opportunity

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. ↗

— Jane Austen

#intimacy #marianne-dashwood #openness #opportunity #self-disclosure

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them ↗

— Veronica Roth

#four #tobias #veronica-roth #opportunity

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. ↗

— John Wooden

#teaching #opportunity

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ↗

— Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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