"Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing."

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Source : Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

Ellen Hopkins

#Mean Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Risk Quotes

“You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.”
“One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
“If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.”
“I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.”
“I was in a convent for a year.”
“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 65-66, Idyllia, XII. Inconnexa. 5, 1922.
“If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

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