Why didn’t it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough... and not closer?
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Quotes tagged ‘chances’
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.
If it weren’t for second chances, we’d all be alone.
I don’t know when we’ll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
More than anything I grieve over what we never said.
She doesn’t miss you because if giving her a chance was too much for you, then she is too much for you.
Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.
They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest. But we can’t forget that he who doesn’t flap his wings, never flies at all.
What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
You get what anybody gets - You get a lifetime.
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object.
You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.