“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“It must be possible to swim in the ocean of the one you love without drowning.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.”— Chris Hadfield, globalnews.ca
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”— Lorraine Hansberry, amazon.com
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“You know. Life’s short. If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what you’re best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don’t work for you.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.”— Richard Ford, amazon.com
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Getting emotionally invested in an exclusively dating status w/ no "guarantee" of a commitment is a risk in itself.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“Follow your instincts and even if you're wrong about him (or her), you'll know better for the next time.”— Rachel Machacek, amazon.com
“Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.’”— Bryan Cranston, youtube.com
“You are the one girl that made me risk everything for a future worth having.”— Simone Elkeles, amazon.com
“I think that although embracing vulnerability is risky, it’s not as dangerous as shutting ourselves from everyone and hiding ourselves from the beauty (and tragedy) of life.”— Kyra del Rosario, thoughtcatalog.com
“Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, 'I'm not afraid to believe in you.'”— Cara Lockwood, amazon.com