...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.
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The world can accommodate your situation, as it accommodates all situations. And your body will keep explaining to you how it all works, this original experiment, this lifelong gift. Your body will keep describing how, for the first time being at least, there is no escape from this particular vessel. These are your atoms. This is your consciousness. These are your experiences--your successes and mistakes. This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography. This is the existential container, the bowl of your life's soup, wherein something can be made sense of, wherein there is a cure, wherein you are.
This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.
Our consciousness is a proof of our existence in this life.It's a chance given to us, to find a way to reach the eternity.
You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.
You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.
Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. _It is a dangerously false illusion.
Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.
She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.
There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it.
Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go wit
I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed even the barest hope of freedom. Without us, they have no empire.
It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.