“Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened” LoveLittlesMomentsEyeCareRunningDiesCareersLaughingRiskCryFailurePerfectionOver YouSweatAvid Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.” MenMayDoeRunningDiesEvilCausesCommunityMoralRiskSourceDiseaseLosingLaborMadnessWineSpeciesPreservesPoisonDisorderIdlenessQuarrelsBrutesVigorDegradeAversion Author:Francois Fenelon
“I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.” GivingHumansDiesChanceRiskDisappointmentCornyTake A ChanceSpectrumHuman LoveSmartass Book:Conversations with Jim Harrison Source: Conversations with Jim Harrison
“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources” PeopleYearsTwoWarMatterSufferingDiesCausesWaterEconomyGrowingRiskPlanetsSourceHigherDiseaseCleanRateCancerIllnessGrantedRelatedMortalitySevereDiabetesClean WaterCholesterolHigh Cholesterol Author:Jewel
“He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.” MayDiesRiskClimbsCliffs Author:Ruth Park
“Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.” Has BeensActionDiesSportsRaceRiskSkillsUltimateClaimsBraveryCriticsEdgesCrowdsNonsenseDriversRacingDisplaySpectatorsRisk-takingRagged Author:Brock Yates
“An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.” DiesIndividualRiskRefugeTaking RisksHurling Author:Emile M. Cioran