And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Topic: Pain, Risk
- Location: Nevada, Reno
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
