Is this the Quote You Will Live Today?
There are no prompts from BlogHer on
the weekends of NaBloPoMo. I am usually pretty busy on the weekends but I
wanted to keep the momentum going, so I did one of my favorite things: Put
together a short quote collection on the topic we are writing about: risk, this
month.
The quotes are mostly from women, but there are some men here as well, in about the usual proportion of men quotes to women quotes.
Which of these quotes will you play with, and live toward, today?
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.--Joyce Brothers
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.--Holly Near
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.--Victor Hugo
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.--Simone Weil
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.--Spencer Silver, inventor of Post-It notepads
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.--Nora Roberts
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.--Erica Jong
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.--Shirley Hufstedler
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.--Sister Elizabeth Kenny
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.--George Eliot
Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.--Amelia Earhart
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.--Katherine Mansfield
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.--Helen Keller
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