You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the...

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...

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...

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we did not, and it will continue to exist long after we are gone. The supernatural crept into life...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...