If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

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.

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.

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.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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.