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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.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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.
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
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
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.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
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.
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.