#port

Seeing no better jobs on the horizon than flipping hamburgers with so much grease it would make Portugal, Italy, and Spain jealous, I decided to go back to school. It reminds me of something Zelda’s mom told her in November 2007: “Some people flip condos and make millions. Your boyfriend couldn’t even flip burgers and make minimum wage. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#condos #depression #economic-depression #economy #horizon

What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover. ↗

— Thomas Boswell

#reporters #secrets #jealousy

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#leadership #opportunity #self-importance #serve #trumpet

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #opportunity #life

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss. ↗

— Eric Roth

#missed-chances #opportunities #life

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ↗

— Mark Twain

#born #day #important #life #reasons-why

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#motivational #opportunity #success #life

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell; ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#regret #life

If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#opportunities #success #life

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#gave #hardly #her #life #made