"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

#Hurt Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.”
“For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of lifeâ€¦”
“I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.”
“If you're at the end of your rope . . . untie the knot in your heart.”

Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.4, Chronicle Books
“Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1853). “Poetical Works”, p.125
“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”
“One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.”
“That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, Iâ€™m afraid I already knew that about you.”

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