“I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe … But there is something about building up a comradeship — that I still believe is the greatest of all feats — and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving…”— Edmund Hillary, nytimes.com
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”— Albert Camus, en.wikiquote.org
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”— Jorge Luis Borges, www-ccs.cs.umass.edu
“Indeed if memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. How could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us?”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder have intrusive thoughts (or images) that bother them. These can be thoughts about making mistakes, harming someone, contamination, disease, religious preoccupation, fears of impulses or desires, or just about anything that you might consider dangerous, disgu…”— Robert L. Leahy Ph.D., psychologytoday.com
“It’s possible that a distrust of oneself ― which could play out as a fear that deep down, you are dangerous and potentially harmful to others ― and the extreme fear of guilt may work hand-in-hand to create the conditions for OCD to take root.”— Carolyn Gregoire, huffingtonpost.com
“Obsessive thoughts are often a response to confusing discomfort for danger. This is the premise of all anxiety, but particularly with OCD.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Everyone flirts with danger, so long as that danger does not really exist.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com