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“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”

People Looks Hard Happens Care Lying Three Opportunity Enjoy Watches Happened Hard Work Type Things Happen Live Life Our Future Who Cares Your Future Make Things Happen

Author:Ann Landers

“One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.”

People World May Done Lying Opportunity Peace Economic Danger Pressure Practicals Arrangements Practical Things

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

Science Lying Hope Opportunity Fear Limits Tragedy Strive Injustice Deeper Denial Stunting

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.”

Giving Littles God Lying Opportunity Practice Virtue Produce Offers Prove Overcoming God Love Consideration Tenderness Good Work Our Love Obliged Reckoning Muster

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.”

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.”

Knows World Soul Running Action Past Lying Opportunity Loss Keys Shadow Wide Attraction Scholar My Thoughts Grudge Tumult

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.”

“Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.”

Lying Opportunity Greater Equal Benefits Difficulty Obstacles Seeds Setback

Author:Brian Tracy

“I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.”

Years Long Lying Opportunity Water Effort Watches Strength Gains Appreciate Relaxation Hurrying

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.”

Ifs Men Giving Bigs Lying Opportunity Black Amount Cents Falsehood Cheat

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.”

Thinking Feels Lying Opportunity Waiting Too Much Habit Practicals Operations Abstract Pupils Prompts

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals