Opportunity is the same way.It is everywhere.Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted.Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success.Opportunity must be seized and acted upon in order to have value.So many people are so anxious to“get in”on a “ground floor opportunity”，as if the opportunity will do all the work.That’s impossible.
Just as you need air to breathe，you need opportunity to succeed.Ittakes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity，however.You must make use of that opportunity.That’s not up to the opportunity.That’s up to you.It doesn’t matter what“floor”the opportunity is on.What matters is what you do with it.
積極的人在每一次憂患中都看到一個機會，而消極的人則在每個機會中都看到某種憂患。
參考翻譯（高昆）
我們自由自在地呼吸著無處不在的空氣，這看起來是件很平常的事。然而，如果沒有空氣，我們便隻能存活幾分鍾。正常來說，空氣是人人必須的，也是人人都可以獲得的。隻不過有的人呼吸隻是為了自怨自艾的虛度光陰，有些人則是利用它所提供的能源為自己創造了一個絢麗的人生。
機會也是如此，它無處不在，正因為這樣，人們常常忽略它。但是，機會本身並不能帶來成功。隻有抓住機會，采取行動，才能創造成功。很多人都渴望得到“優先獲利的機會”，他們認為隻要有機會就什麼都有了。但那是不可能的。
就像人們有空氣才能呼吸一樣，成功也要有機會才能成功。但是，機會遠遠不是呼吸新鮮空氣那麼簡單，你必須很好地利用它。成功並不取決於機會本身，而是取決於你。你擁有怎樣的機會並不重要，重要的是，你怎樣把握手中的機會。
The Lover And The Beloved 愛與被愛
Carson McCullers 卡森·麥卡勒斯
First of all，love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean it is a similar experience of the two people involved.There are the lover and the beloved，but these two come from different countries.Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto.And somehow every lover knows this.He feels in his soul that his love is a solitary thing.He comes to know a new，strange loneliness and it is this knowledge which makes him suffer.So there is only one thing for the lover to do.He must house his love within himself as best as he can；he must create for himself a whole new inward world—a world intense and strange，complete in himself.Let it be added here that this lover about whom we speak need not necessarily be a young man saving for a wedding ring—this lover can be man，woman，child，or indeed any human creature on this earth.