There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that taking risks is essential for discovery, and the nature of those risks reflects our true values.
Jeanette Winterson's quote highlights the intrinsic relationship between risk and discovery, suggesting that without embracing uncertainty, we cannot make new breakthroughs or learn from our experiences. Furthermore, the risks we choose to take reveal our deepest values and priorities, shedding light on what we hold dear in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine whatβs going on in our hearts.
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
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