Roxanne Barbour's Blog, page 8
September 4, 2017
Quotation – September 4, 2017
RISKS
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only the person who risks is free.
ANON
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Peony
August 30, 2017
Quotation – August 30, 2017
Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i’s.
Robert Brault
August 29, 2017
Quotation – August 29, 2017
Carlyle said “a lie cannot live.”
It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
Mark Twain
August 27, 2017
Quotation – August 27, 2017
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
August 23, 2017
Quotation – August 23, 2017
“… Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of newfound marvels and he wanted to share the excitement with everybody. They all did. They had a certain sense. It wasn’t a sense of ennui or cynicism. It was…
A sense of wonder.
That was it. A sense of wonder, in the fine old original meaning of the word. They wondered at their world. Because when you did that, everything was wonder-full.
Fallen Angels, p.137
Niven, Pournelle and Flynn
August 21, 2017
Quotation – August 21, 2017
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
August 20, 2017
Quotation – August 20, 2017
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and look like work.
Thomas Edison
August 19, 2017
Quotation – August 19, 2017
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
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Peony
July 27, 2017
Quotation – July 27, 2017 #2
Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Albert Einstein
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Quotation – July 27, 2017
Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover’s quarrel with the world. It’s ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don’t have to worry about learning things. The fire of one’s art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.
James Lee Burke
