A Quote by William Dean Howells
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.
He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.
Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.
If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.
Good luck, little Wanderer, good luck. How I wish you didn't need it.
I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And with those game pieces come other stories we're not familiar with. So, science fiction teaches us how to relate to outsiders, to foreigners, and to not approach any of that with fear, but a genuine curiosity.
It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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