If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

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.

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.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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.

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.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth read more

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.