Be Alert to New Opportunities

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
- John Barrymore

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Learn from Failure

Another Door

Follow Your Bliss
    

For Those in Need of Comfort for the Past and Courage for the Future

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll

If you can't fly then run,
if you can't run then walk,
if you can't walk then crawl,
but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

In the face of unthinkable catastrophe,
hold on to your courage, your moral values,
and your vision for a brighter tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I shine my Light of God wherever I see darkness. 

Further reading: Learning from Failure

Endurance

The Darkest Night
      

It's Never Too Late

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

The time for action is now.
It's never too late to do something.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down,
but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

Further reading: You're Never Too Old

The First Day

What's Done is Done

Focus and Flexibility

Being Wrong

No Regrets