“What's better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?” — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it’s a risk that’s worth taking.” — Deirdre Martin Copy Share Image
As a rose cant live without the rain So a heart can't love without risk of pain — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure,… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is that we would rather be crippled by… — Sally Vickers Copy Share Image