"Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Believe Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.”
“Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012
“The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.”

Source : Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing
“Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.”
“You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.”
“Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.”
“Judging by opinion polls, Israel has bigger problems than me. It is among the most hated countries on the planet. It should stop acting like a lunatic state. Once it carries on like a normal country, I will be happily redirect my energies elsewhere.”
“Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.”

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