Quotes About Risk

I can either eat the expired turkey meat in the fridge, hoping it will cause me illness so great that no one can deny my need to visit the emergency room, or at the very least, stay home in bed.

4. Attachment offers a secure base. Secure attachment also provides a secure base from which individuals can explore their universe and most adaptively respond to their environment. The presence of such a base encourages exploration and a cognitive openness to new information. It promotes the confidence necessary to risk, learn, and continually update models of self and the world.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Because the reward is worth the risk.

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

Love gives us power, makes us risk everything we have, everything we are. Love is not for the weak. It's for the strong.

I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

His life was totally out of control. And it had never felt so right.

little brother break his ornery neck. "Tate, this is a bad idea.

Don't fall in love with a spy.

Not everyone can have my level of adventure.

Because life didn't just come with better . . . it came with worse, too. A worse that God could have fixed, perhaps, if she'd let Him, so long ago. She hadn't wanted to take the risk of a broken heart. Of getting hurt over and over again. But wasn't that the nature of love? Risking betrayal? Forgiving? Wiping the slate clean and starting over? Wasn't that the nature of God?

Colt wasn't the only brave one here. Wasn't the only one who was ready to do violence to keep people safe.

You have to learn to live life in the middle of the danger. And trust that there's a bigger plan.

I won't die. I can't guarantee I won't do something stupid." -Colt

Oh, she knew it. Apparently, she had a type. The kind of men who didn't care what trouble—or death—might be waiting for them. Who turned their face to it and charged ahead. The kind of men who died for what they believed in. The kind of men who would break her heart.

Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this better than anyone.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

The risk in giving love and receiving love is better than the safety of not loving at all.

Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend the difference between that moment and the one before it. No one made choices for me. I made them. If I took no risks in the choices I'd made, it was because I didn't have the courage to take them or didn't want to live with the consequences. I didn't want to risk disappointment myself. It had been safer to defer than to strike our on my own.

Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.