Taking risks like eating rusks

Though the header is a funny line from the Vaigai express Vadivel's vocabulary, the following thoughts recorded are quite serious and useful with regards to taking risks and looking for opportunities! I read these in my favourite life enhancing magazine "Frozen thoughts". I am just recording those here , so anyone who have not had the chance to go through the magazine , but inadvertently stumble on this blog ( though ,quite a rare statistical possibility!!) , would become more interested in getting hold of the magazine and benefit from it.

There are no risks… only opportunities

There is no security TO life. Then where is the question of security IN life. The need for security keeps you transfixed in life. Then where is question of transcendence. Our comfort zones become our prison, within which our potential remains locked up. Imagine a banyan tree growing inside a pot - only a bonsai is possible. It may be artistic, but it doesn't serve the purpose for which it was born. There is security in remaining a seed whereas a plant is always vulnerable. But then, what is the purpose of the seed? It contains a thousand forests within. It is only in its transcendence into a plant the possibilities of a forest exist. If you do not dare to give up certainty for uncertainty, you will not move ahead. Growth is in giving up what you are to become what you can be. It is astonishing as to how the world makes way for a resolute soul! It is amazing how obstacles move out of the path of a man who chooses to transcend, than to remain transfixed. Throw yourself into the unknown. Make a rebellious move. Take a daring plunge. Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. There are no risks… only opportunities. The higher and the beyond are awaiting us… - Voice of Love

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. People

wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there

any hope for them. Whatever you do, you need courage.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always

someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always

difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are

right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end

requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women

to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has

nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may

avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot

learn and feel and change and grow and love and

live. Risks must be taken, because the greatest

hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo F Buscaglia

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in

nature, nor do the children of men as a whole

experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the

long run than outright exposure. Life is either a

daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose

sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

Twenty years from now you will be more

disappointed by the things you didn't do than

by the ones you did do. So throw off the

bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.

Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no

community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and

ultimately no life, without community. - M. Scott Peck

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never

have a love affair. We'd never have

friendship. We'd never go into business,

because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's

nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs

all the time and build your wings on the

way down. - Annie Dillard

There came a time when the risk to remain

tight in the bud was more painful than the

risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

A ship in harbour is safe but that is not

what ships are for. - John A. Shedd

I hold it true, whate'er befall;

I feel it, when I sorrow most;

'Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Tennyson

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers

to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's

self to destiny. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more

useful than a life spent in doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order

that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and

therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve

it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not

dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard

Bite off more than you can chew,

then chew it. - Ella Williams

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the

opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you

don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

Creativity requires the courage to let go

of certainties. - Erich Fromm

This nation was built by men who took risks -

pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness,

businessmen who were not afraid of failure,

scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers

who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who

were not afraid of action. - Brooks Atkinson

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it

is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca

The web address fir the magazine is http://www.frozenthoughts.com/