Quotes About Risk

There are times when we've had to decide to change or remain the same. Will we be slaves to safe, mundane routines or break out and remake our lives the way we imagine them to be? Real change may entail risk, pain, probably anxiety, and hard work, but it's a way "to be" versus not being. We've all been heroes or cowards in our own narratives, depending on the occasion and the choices we've made.

fight cancer. (Research has shown that children who suffer abuse are about 50 percent more likely to get cancer than other children.)

One of the big risks in treating depersonalization—the condition where one loses all sense of identity—is what happens when that person regains a sense of self.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!

Everybody goes around missing all the best stuff because they don't want anything bad to happen. But then when something bad wants to happen it just does. Anyway. No matter how careful you're being.

I'd tell you to be careful, except for two things. One, it wouldn't do any good anyhow. And two, I think we tell each other that too much. Be careful. Don't get hurt. Don't take changes. Don't try anything. Don't feel. Might as well be telling each other not to be alive at all. Boils down to the same thing.

Ah, yes. That. The sin of being happy or excited. According to my father, we must guard carefully against such things. According to my father, these emotions are the equivalent of dancing on out fifth-floor window ledge. Clearly inviting a nasty fall.

Picture yourself looking back on the decision ten or twenty years down the road. Let's say you try it, and it doesn't work out. How much will you regret it? Now let's say you don't try it, so you never know. Then how much regret?

Sometimes we have to do things we're scared of. The trick is not to wait until the thing doesn't scare us anymore, because that day might never come. The trick is to do the thing scared.

But you have a way of pushing decisions down the road. It's like you're waiting to be sure how it'll pan out before you decide. But that never works. We can't ever know that going in. I think you just need to choose a path and see where it takes you.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing.

It's always easier to take a risk when it's your own stuff you're risking. Nothing is harder than risking something that belongs to somebody else.

Well, child, I'd tell you to be careful, except for two things. One, it wouldn't do any good anyhow. And two, I think we tell each other that too much. Be careful. Don't get hurt. Don't take chances. Don't try anything. Don't feel. Might as well be telling each other not to be alive at all. Boils down to the same thing.

The other part of it was that sometimes you just have to take a chance on something, because otherwise you definitely end up with nothing. You just have to be a brave girl sometimes, like I told the baby a thousand times that night.

these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

I decided to leave my bags there at the hotel. It was a risky move, because I knew if I didn't get back to fetch them by noon, I could be on the hook for another day's two-dollar charge.

We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Somehow Bea knew the key would have to be an utter lack of preparation. Of anticipation. Once she allowed space for doubt, she would never overcome it.

You're saying hearts are supposed to be broken. Not sure I agree, but . . ." "Right. Otherwise you're not really using them. Which is a very cowardly way to live, don't you think?

Who knows why people are scared of things, right? If

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Love rarely waits for permission.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.