Risk proverbs

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◆ There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

- William S. Burroughs99

◆ 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.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

- Sarah Addison Allen99

◆ If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

- Drew Barrymore99

◆ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong99

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

- William Faulkner99

◆ Never was anything great achieved without danger.

- Niccolò Machiavelli99

◆ Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

- Criss Jami99

◆ When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

- Patrick Overton99

◆ Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

- Will Rogers99

◆ Fortune sides with him who dares.

- Virgil99

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

- Helen Keller99

◆ Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

- Thomas Henry Huxley99

◆ Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

- Toba Beta99