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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.
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.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence read more
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
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.
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love read more
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
