We’re a week into March and white still covers neighborhood yards, yet my cat and I are outside, searching for green—the early snowdrops, first of the spring flowers.

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

I love that they blossom in the cold when the weather could very well freeze or bury them. I like to think they’re brave. Just as I like to believe I am as I start a new novel or try teaching a lesson I’ve never taught before.

My snowdrops haven’t come up yet, but to encourage them, myself and my readers, I’ve decided to post quotes on courage and risk-taking in general.

“To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“When thinking about what to do next with your life, don’t ask yourself what you would succeed at, but what you would most enjoy failing at.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Year

“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
― Drew Barrymore

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
― William S. Burroughs

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“You’re never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“To save all we must risk all.”
― Friedrich Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Are you beginning something new this season? Taking a chance? I’d love to hear about it.

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/risk?