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title: "3 Avoiding Risk Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-callahan/avoiding-risk-is-not-much-of-a-goal-whether-you-crawl-into-a-hole-or/)

[Steven Callahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-callahan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/steven-callahan-36730_alive_avoiding-risk-is-not-much-of-a-goal-whet_1453176.jpg)

> [Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-de-pree/sometimes-we-think-we-re-a-little-too-gifted-to-show-up-yo-uknow-but/)

[Max De Pree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-de-pree/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/818/max-de-pree-12046_avoiding_sometimes-we-think-we-re-a-little-too-gi_1465051.jpg)

> [“We may believe that anxiety and fear don't concern us because we avoid experiencing them. We may keep the scope of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-lerner/we-may-believe-that-anxiety-and-fear-don-t-concern-us-because-we/)

[Harriet Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-lerner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/harriet-lerner-4248_anxiety_we-may-believe-that-anxiety-and-fear-don_1887019.jpg)

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