Quotes About Risk

To live is to love. To love is to risk pain. To risk pain is to live. It's what it means to truly be human. As fragile as dust. The breaking of us. The making of us. The building up of our faith.

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

God isn't afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn't pull back. He pulls you close.

Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.

The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

When asked, 'What did you want to say in this work?' he would answer, 'I've said what I've said.' This made sense in where everyone assumed music had a meaning - but where saying the wrong thing could get a person killed. -Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

You can go extinct, or broke. But here we are on the edge of chaos because that's where, on average, we all do the best.

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Reese held Allacazam out to him, wondering if Hirianthial would take him directly from her hands and risk touching her, or if she'd have to set the Flitzbe on the floor and let him roll to the man's boots.

reached the edge of the pond. I didn't know how deep the water was, but that didn't matter. If a child was in danger, if there was a life to save, I had to attempt it.

Did you have a love that grand?" I asked him. No. I never did. Did you? "No, and I wouldn't want to. It would be too painful if it failed." But to experience it once—even if it is painful—don't you think it would be worth it? Wouldn't you want to know what that kind of intensity is like? Wouldn't you want to feel that deeply? "I don't think most people can. Not the way I imagine it.

Perhaps," said Jasper shyly, "you would like some Gargletine Instant Breakfast Drink?" Katie fixed him with a long, level stare. Gargletine TM caused hysteria in lab rats and took the brown off horses. "Maybe not," said Katie. "But thanks.

I always thought you were someone things happened to." "What sorts of things?" "You know. I thought you led a life of risk and adventure." She shrugged. "Here's what I know: People will think that, if you have a certain kind of hair.

The frontal attacks puzzled me. Why advance straight into German machine-gun fire? Why not make flank attacks?" These suicidal charges worked occasionally only because Stalin did not care how many of his own soldiers died.

No tengo amigos. Es demasiado peligroso" La ardilla miedosa.

Todos sentimos un gran temor al NO, un enorme temor al rechazo. Sin embargo, si no nos arriesgamos a recibir un NO, nunca recibiremos los SÍ. ¿Qué pasa si la gente nos dice NO? Si lo pensamos bien, no es tan grave.

Muchas veces la felicidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, esa esquina que nunca nos atrevemos a doblar.

É melhor cair das nuvens que de um segundo andar

Ah, Chantal... Now I think I know how it feels to fly on a trapeze.

If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.

Yet you would dare to stay?" "I dare anything," he said. And that is how we came to be lovers.