#taking

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change. ↗

— Rik Leaf

#life #pursuing-happiness #risk-taking #change

Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice. ↗

— Ann D. Clark

#sober-living #sobriety #taking-control #change

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. ↗

— Peter Paul Rubens

#ever #however #size #such #surpassed

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off. ↗

— Burt Young

#i #off #taking #used #weight

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#effort #taking-chances #courage

Unfortunately, there's no test of compatibility to see how couples will survive together, despite what they say on those online dating sites. There's always a risk you take when you agree to spend the rest of your life with someone. ↗

— Jaci Burton

#taking-risk #dating

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#advantage #been #even #free #free stuff

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#actor #always #beautiful #because #cafe

When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#taking-chances #faith

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#even #first #first step #see #staircase