Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap read more

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
Das ist der rechte Mann.]

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.