The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.
It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance,
or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
- Orison Swett Marden
...I absolutely agree, with the following modification - we create our own luck. What is luck? Labor Under Correct Knowledge.
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."
- Thaddeus Golas
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Francis Bacon
""The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done."
- Arnold Palmer
"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Rosalyn Carter
"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instinct, and there abide,
the huge world will come round to him."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
-Chinese Proverb
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting."
-Katherine Hepburn
So true...
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
- Chinese proverb
I remember James Clavell's Tai-Pan back in the 80's. The Tai-pan (CEO) of the giant trading house was quizzed about how he could juggle so many priorities, crises and intrigues all at the same time and still remain so calm.
He said that the only way you could do it was to place each of these worries in a separate little box in your brain and close the door on that box when you weren't dealing with it. Otherwise, you get overwhelmed. Neat trick. One that deserves our attention.
Happy Weekend!
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman emperor
"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo
Every human is an artist. The dream
of your life is to make beautiful art.
-don Miguel Ruiz
Ian