“We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can’t open your heart and not have some hurt because you’re in a human experience. Even if it’s the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it’s a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.”
-Mary Manin Morrissey
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can
risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
- E. E. Cummings
“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
-Frederick Smith
"The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom."
- Anais Nin
"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13:4