"A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

John D'Agata

#Risk Quotes #Feels Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no oneâ€™s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you donâ€™t see them that way. Yet.”
“They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”
“If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.”
“Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.”
“Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on....”

Source : Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”
“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.4, Lulu.com
“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”

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