#Risk

"Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)"

"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."

"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you."

"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."

"People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions."

"The only safe thing is to take a chance."

"At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious."

"Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them."

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."

"Fortune sides with him who dares."

"To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look."

"The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar"

"Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself."

"Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen."

"The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits."

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

"Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for."