Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.
- Topic: Life, Risk
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.
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.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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.
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.
