You don't gain much in life if you never allow yourself to be vulnerable. Sometimes the best things in life happen when we open our hearts and give someone the opportunity to hurt us, and trust them not to, and they don't.
—Terry Bolryder in Bearlebrity
More quotations tagged with “opportunity”
If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or something, then maybe you're just as bad as the people who caused the trouble in the first place.
—Bree Despain in The Lost Saint
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
—Helen Rowland
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
—Laurence J. Peter
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.
—Vivienne de Watteville
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