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Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
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I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions,
the mobility and flow of risk capital...
the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital,
and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
- John F. Kennedy
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
This [the Holocaust] must never happen again. ...
Be vigilant about your rights.
Care about the rights and human dignity of others.
When the rights of any group, no matter how small,
no matter how marginal, are violated,
your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania, in the closing remarks
of his six-hour Teaching Company audio lecture series
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
Life is defined more by its risks than by its samenesses.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.
Perhaps this person will never
be disappointed or disillusioned;
perhaps she won't suffer the way
people do when they have a dream to follow.
But when the person looks back -
and at some point everyone look back -
she will hear her heart, saying,
"What have you done with the miracles
that God planted in your days?
What have you done with the talents
God bestowed on you?"
- Paulo Coelho
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
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