One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Living fully requires both effort and the courage to take risks.
- In plain terms
- To truly live, you must work hard and take risks.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace effort and risk as essential parts of living fully.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What risk are you avoiding?
- How do you define living well?
Another view
Some lives are lived fully through quiet contentment rather than risk.
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