From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
Interpretation
Life is a wonderful opportunity that allows you to create your own future.
In this quote, Toni Morrison emphasizes the notion that each individual's life is filled with possibilities and serendipitous moments. She suggests that life itself is a miraculous opportunity, and it is up to each person to take control and shape their destiny according to their desires and aspirations.
In practice
This quote can inspire someone starting a new chapter in their life.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
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