OPPORTUNITIES

"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." -- Muriel Spark

"Opportunity never knocks; it is within you." -- Denis Waitley

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." -- Orison Swett Marden

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." -- Napoleon Hill

HOPE

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." -- Alexander Dumas

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Whenever hope and illusion become the source of the will to live, all knowledge of reality becomes highly threatening, since at any time a new piece of information might remove the grounds for this hope. When life is motivated by hope for improvement, denial of reality is necessarily renewed and fortified." -- Christina Thurmer-Rohr

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." -- Samuel Johnson