“Don’t miss out on something that could be great just because it could also be difficult.”— Anonymous, thelovejournals.com
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought.”— Lauren Bacall, harpersbazaar.com.au
“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”— Henry David Thoreau, strengthawakening.com
“They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest. But we can’t forget that he who doesn’t flap his wings, never flies at all.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”— Kurt Vonnegut, 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
“They say that he who flies highest, falls farthest. But we can’t forget that he who doesn’t flap his wings, never flies at all.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”— Tom Hiddleston, goodreads.com
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.”— Tara Brach, psychologytoday.com