*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine.

At a time when the limits of leadership are being tested in so many places is your time to rule in your own territory.

Just maybe I was worthy of love.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Take chance standout. You can only have your head above waters if you stick your neck out a bit. It’s time to take off… Dare to rise!

How can one change one’s entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that’s what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

Our life is our only chance…

… not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. ‘It seems then,’ I said, ‘if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water, vinegar, oil and slices of eggs had been flying...

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through ‘human chaos’ or through ‘divine perfection’ when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not ‘divine perfection?

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence,” said Hollus, “or it is deliberate design.

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?

He felt safe with her. He’d never been safe with another human being, not since he’d been taken as a child from his home. He’d never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece – all that was left of his humanity – into someone else’s keeping. And now there was...

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

When you claim to be what you’re not, you’re deliberately killing opportunities, because those who would have help will shun you, thinking that you had it all already.

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...

I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

If you expect the worse, you’re only denying someone a chance to be better

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on...

A prisoner’s shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

When you live today, being accountable for yesterday, today will be better because you would have taken the chance to know the activities and people who unmade and made your day and edit today’s plans for the better.

You need to take the chance because you cannot read the thoughts of people, because you do not want to regret when you grow old, because life is short and time is fleeting, because arousing conflict works at times, because sometimes it’s the only way, the absolute option, because sometimes it’s just necessary.

On dit que la chance ne passe qu’une fois à votre portée, qu’il faut la saisir à son tour. Après c’est fini. Elle est partie ailleurs et ne reviendra plus. Seuls les amnésiques n’ont pas de regrets.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

I’m sorry, but nothing ‘just happens’. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.

I’m not saying you should marry wossisname. Just give yourself a chance with him.””A chance to what?””Be with someone again.””I w-w-want to,” I whispered. “But what if it goes the same way? W-what if I’m unbeable with?

When you finally found the woman for you, never miss a chance to take good care of her. She may not be perfect, but she’s worth loving. Look beyond her imperfections and you’ll see, you will be grateful having her for the rest of your life.

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a...

Anyone who refuses to make a choice has already made a wrong choice by allowing his life for chance to rule!

Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the “you can’t take the Bible literally” argument. They think it is the ultimate zinger that will end any debate in their favor. But if we shouldn’t take the Bible literally, why should we believe God is real in the literal sense? Perhaps God is a metaphor...

Nightmares are at all times better than real life; because you always have the chance to start over everything.

It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami’s voice. But I am not frightened. I am...

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live!

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.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature’s production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out...

The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of 0. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go.

When you meet opportunity face to face, there will come all shouts; some are meant to make you miss the chance while others are encouragements from people who are ready to celebrate your winning goal! Whatever it is, you got to strike irrespective of who says what!