I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.
– Hazel Lee
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- Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what’s in him and what’s been given him. – Laurence Rockefeller
- I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. – Steven Pinker
- A little beetle passed me by. He didn’t make much fuss, He ran around my garden Like a tiny yellow bus. – Slyvia Gerditz
- Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. – Randolph S. Bourne
- You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. – Irene C. Kassorla
- I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. – Charles
- Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. – Horace
- “Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
- How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! – Isaac Watts
- If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. – Anonymous