Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.
Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
I do not particularly like the word "work.” Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think this is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they h...
That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the b...
Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur...
Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not jus...
Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes. “You’re less like your father than I thought,” he said finally, a definite coolness in his voice. “The risk would’ve been what made it fun for James.” “Look —�...
I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.
Heartbreak is awful, but truth be told, if you have never had your heart broken, then you aren't fully living. I want you to ask yourself this question because I want you to bask in the fullness of life. And in order to feel life - to experience life...
The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.
I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.
I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
