Fear

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and to express what we really are. We have learned to live our lives trying to satisfy other people's demands. We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of our fear of not being accepted.
(Don Miguel Ruiz, author, in Words That Matter by the Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 128)
5 February 2016

Your Past

Do not run the risk of making your past your future.

(Cloud & Townsend, God Will Make A Way, p. 212)

21 May 2014

Pete Carroll - Super Bowl 2014 Winning Coach

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I was at USC and I had the time of my life there for nine years. We had won on a pretty big scale and set a lot of records. Then I was faced with an opportunity to go to the NFL and leave the best times that I'd ever had. That was the greatest risk I ever took, because I had it going on, I had it made, but this was just an extraordinary opportunity to compete and accomplish something when the stakes were even higher and the challenges were even greater.

(Pete Carroll in Secrets by Rhonda Byrne, p. 102-3)
10 February 2014

Such A Mess

There are some places in your life that are such a mess that you cannot risk someone stepping in and making things any more difficult than they are. (Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 12 December) 12 March 2013

Experimenting

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. (Herbert Otto, Touchstones, 29 July) 6 August 2012

Risk

Taking a risk to do something new today just might be fun.

What have you got to lose?

... realize the importance of having something to do upon arising each morning.

(Karen Casey, Keepers Of The Wisdom, 1 April and 3 May)

6 July 2012