#taking

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

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#effort #taking-chances #courage

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#beautiful #kind #making #music #our

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#risk-taking #timidity #experience

I wasn't going to kiss you."' 'You weren't?' I look up look up at him. [...] 'Nope, the next time I kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And when we're done you're going to realize being turned on is not about experience. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#taking-your-time #experience

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

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#around #home #i #just #luckily

Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#life-lessons #taking-chances #life

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#taking-chances #dreams

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ↗

— Malachy McCourt

#like #other #person #poison #resentment