"Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, " I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.
Effort and sacrifice is a big part of it, and there's also acknowledging the role that the unknown plays... luck... fortune, which favours the brave... that the universe is bigger than you can see... and if you act in faith, then opportunities will appear that you have not and could not have foreseen.
Because there are a great many more things in the world that you don't know than that you do, this is actually a pretty good way to bet...
