I admit, I stole these from the comments in Barlow's recent post. They are so wonderful I must place them here also for your pleasure (and mine as well.)
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of life is to live dangerously.
- Fridrich Wilhelm Nietzche
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the
broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the
very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you
are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there
will be no special hurry.
- Ernest Hemingway; 1899-1961
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- Thomas Browne, 1605-1682
We are more often frightened than hurt; we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 1AD)
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.
- Tim McMahon
"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are
filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and
pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a
different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
- Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
We live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those are absolutely beautiful.
Posted by: Will Campbell | January 04, 2005 at 04:16 PM
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
Posted by: adam | February 15, 2005 at 12:41 AM