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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Related topics: Bold Choice Courage Adventure Positive Motivational
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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