Quotes tagged ‘Risk’

“When the right one comes along, you figure it out. You move mountains, you change your life and you do whatever it takes to keep them with you.”

— Jay Crownover, amazon.com

“You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken. And the greatest reward.”

— Sylvia Day, amazon.com

“You're the greatest risk I've ever taken. And the greatest reward.”

— Sylvia Day, amazon.com

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“Writing is an act of courage. But it’s worth taking the risk.”

— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com

“I decide then that love is a terrible, terrible thing. Loving someone as fiercely…must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.”

— Nicola Yoon, amazon.com

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

— William S. Burroughs, goodreads.com

“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?”

— Carolee Dean, amazon.com

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”

— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com

“Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away.”

— Kasie West, amazon.com

“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”

— Nora Roberts, amazon.com

“Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.”

— Tobias Smollett, amazon.com

“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”

— Friedrich Hölderlin, gutenberg.spiegel.de

“pain means you're alive”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons. Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it w…”

— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, youtube.com

“Moral fiber. So, what is moral fiber? It's funny, I used to think it was always telling the truth, doing good deeds, basically being a fucking boy scout. But lately, I've been seeing it differently. Now I think moral fiber's about finding that one thing you really care about. That one special thing…”

— David Wagner, Brent Goldberg, Matthew, Emile Hirsch, amazon.com