So you think you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
When you love someone /
and you bite your tongue /
all you get is a mouth full of blood /
Fruit Bats
Sometimes the only way is jumping, I hope you’re not afraid of heights.
Gavin DeGraw, Meaning
You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.
T.J. Thyne, Bones
Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I’ve struggled with my whole life long.
Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Life responds when we risk.
Rodney Smith
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
Neil Gaiman, Fables and Reflections
Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness
Trusting anything, your family, your instincts, the dim-witted anchor on the ten o’clock news, its all a gamble, with plenty of promises and no guarantees, but I’m finding the longer I live, no matter how often I fall on my face, that folding is for losers. That winners take hits. Call it going all in, call it rolling the dice. Screw hedging your bets, bluff, raise, call, stand, again and again and again…
Mary McCormack, In Plain Sight
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
It doesn’t hurt to ask. Sometimes the most beautiful girls are the loneliest.
Keith Gordon, Jaws 2
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
Oprah Winfrey
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues