Dare to Take Risks

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have
the possibility of being great.
- Cher

There's something liberating about not pretending.
Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
- Drew Barrymore

With courage you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

People do not wish to appear foolish.
To avoid the appearance of foolishness,
they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker

All Life is a risk - even crossing the street, or sitting in your easy chair.
So relax, don't worry, and live the most productive and enjoyable life you can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Live Your Greatest Life

The Myth of Security

Courage to Overcome Fear

Live Courageously
      

Blessed in Abundance

We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Further reading: How good things are

Zero-Based Gratitude

The Essence of Life

Appreciate again and again
    

Sharing Yourself Deeply

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There never was any heart truly great and generous,
that was not also tender and compassionate.
- Robert Frost

Live your life from your heart.
Share from your heart.
And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
- Melody Beattie

True love never comes with conditions.
Become a source of unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Proactive in Our Love

Tender

What Does Love Look Like?
   

Love Tenderly

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

There never was any heart truly great and generous,
that was not also tender and compassionate.
- Robert Frost

Further reading: What Does Love Look Like?

The Universal Sacrament of Compassion

Feeding the Children

What Does Compassion Look Like?

Proactive in Our Love

Choose to Love Life

Tender

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- jlh

Further reading: The Small Miracles of Our Lives

Gentleness and kind persuasion (Aesop fable)

May the road rise up to meet you