Risk

by Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Other selected quotes by Anais Nin :

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

poem Anais Nin Risk