Richelle Mead Quotes

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

So many plusses, so many minuses.

If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.

I think everything has its own pros and cons.

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a lot of denial, and denial is always dangerous even if all of your intentions are good and all your preparations are good. When you make a choice you're denying an infinite number of other choices.

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

We are pioneers and the history of pioneers is not that good.