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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more
Far better is it 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 grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If read more
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
Every risk is worth taking as long as its for a Good cause and contributes to a Good life.
Every risk is worth taking as long as its for a Good cause and contributes to a Good life.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
