“In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.”
“It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it.”
“We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”
“If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.B”
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us”
“Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.”