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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : German philosopher, scientist & writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
 
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There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.

Jeanette Winterson : Gaia Explorer
Jeanette Winterson
Source: Lighthousekeeping, Page: 214
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He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
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A child born of chance might imagine that Chance was its father, in the way that gods fathered children, and then abandoned them, without a backward glance, but with one small gift. I wondered if a gift had been left for me. I had no idea where to look, or what I was looking for, but I know now that all the important journeys start that way.

Jeanette Winterson : Gaia Explorer
Jeanette Winterson
Source: Lighthousekeeping, Page: 33
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The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

Madeleine L'Engle
Source: Two-Part Invention
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Aristotle : Greek philosopher, student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
 
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm

Dorothy Parker : American writer, poet, journalist, satirist, humorist
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
 
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You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself.
If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure:
When you get the chance, go for it.

Oprah Winfrey : American television talk show host, movie actress
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
 
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Maude: Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE!
[beat]
Maude: Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Collin Higgins
Source: Harold and Maude
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.  It is wrong then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences, but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life.  For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera
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But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?  [...] Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.  Only chance can speak to us

Milan Kundera
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Every person sets his or her destiny. This I am sure about. Nothing happens by chance. You make a plan and decide to make it happen.

Alfredo Karras
Source: Be
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Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
Source: "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long," Time Enough for Love
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It began with the Wisdom of Foolishness, a commitment to remain fluid, receptive, in process, part of the Membrane of Things as I struck out on that spiritual Route 66, the Experience Trail, determined to follow it to the end. It began with yours truly spontaneously ceasing to be myself and becoming someone else, assuming in the blink of an “I” the role of a drifter, a rolling stone, a wayward mariner lone and visionary on the High Seas of Chance and Possibility.

Sol Luckman
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We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Gloria Gaither
Source: Gentle words to comfort the soul
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Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Robert Collier : American businessman, writer of motivational books
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God may not play dice with the Universe, but we're not Gods so we have to keep rolling the dice until we get it right.

Raphie : Raphie Frank :: Business Artivist
Raphie Frank
 
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If you want to know what real love is, you need to have been rejected at least once, and given at least once someone else's love a chance.

Domus Ulixes : Some Kid
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.  We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes de Mille (1908 - )
 
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 Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!

MaNnUzZ : Warrior Angel
Mandy
Source: William Wallace played by Mel Gibson in the movie Braveheart
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Victor Hugo : Gaia Child
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Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
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Health is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.
It is something we have been gifted with, took for granted
and we can reclaim and regain.

~ Darina Stoyanova ~

Darina Stoyanova
 
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Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place.  Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different... My rational thought processes cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.  I'm here because I climbed out the window at night when I was four.

Frances Mayes
Source: Under the Tuscan Sun
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.

William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
 
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
 
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy : sales trainer
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
 
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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

William Wordsworth : English poet, leader of romantic movement
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Source: The Excursion. Book ix.
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