quotes of risk and reward

I admit, I stole these from the comments in Barlow's recent post. They are so wonderful I must place them here also for your pleasure (and mine as well.)

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of life is to live dangerously.
- Fridrich Wilhelm Nietzche

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
- Ernest Hemingway; 1899-1961

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- Thomas Browne, 1605-1682

We are more often frightened than hurt; we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 1AD)

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone.  Otherwise it would be called sure-thing-taking.
- Tim McMahon

"When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
- Chief Aupumut, Mohican. 1725

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

We live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson