Quotes About Risk

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new things in daily life, to do things you always dreamed of.

There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

love doesn't ask many questions, because once we start thinking, we start to feel afraid. It's an inexplicable fear and there's no point putting it into words. Risks are there to be taken.

Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people--preferably our parents, our spouses or our children--for our failure to realize our dreams.

Lo que perturba es el riesgo de ser diferente, y el horror de ser igual...

Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.

We all know I won't be killed because of this stupid allegation of espionage, but because I decided to be who I always dreamed. And the price of a dream is always high.

Traveling is not always a question of money, but of courage. You spent a great part of your life going around the world like a hippie: what money did you have then? None. You could hardly afford the tickets, and nevertheless I believe they were some of the best years of your life - eating badly, sleeping at railway stations, unable to communicate because of the language, being forced to depend on others just in order to find some shelter to spend the night.

Then you'll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That's a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

It's nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will travel. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.

Kau sedang apa? Aku sedang tidak punya kegiatan. Kalau begitu, belajarlah sesuatu. Pada saat ini, banyak orang berhenti menjalani kehidupan. Mereka tidak marah, juga tidak berseru-seru memprotes; mereka sekedar menunggu waktu berlalu. mereka tidak menerima tantangan-tantangan kehidupan, jadi kehidupan pun berhenti memberikan tantangan kepada mereka. Kau juga mengambil resiko yang sama; tunjukkan reaksi, hadapi hidup, tapi jangan berhenti hidup.

It's risky, falling in love.

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyzes you is fear of making a mistake. If you ave made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time. If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

El amor no hace muchas preguntas, porque si empezamos a pensar empezamos a tener miedo. Es un miedo inexplicable, y no vale la pena intentar traducirlo en palabras. »Puede ser el miedo al desprecio, a no ser aceptada, a quebrar el encanto. Parece ridículo, pero es así. Por eso no se pregunta: se actúa. Como tú mismo has dicho tantas veces, se corren los riesgos.

The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.

To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea.

Cuando se juega al amor, siempre existe el riesgo de equivocarse, siguió recitando como sonámbula, sobre todo cuando hay muchos que no saben jugar.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

And that can never be a mistake--to fly instead of staying in the nest with all the poop and everything that's in there.