“the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.”

“Putting yourself at risk...that was the only path to anything meaningful. The biggest risk was in not taking a risk.”

“Part of being open to learning is taking risks!”

“Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.”

“When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.”

“Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.”

“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”