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“Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.”
― Tim Fargo

“No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.”
― Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare

“I have said it before. You are too cautious, Fitz. What if this, what if that? You hide from trouble that may never knock at our door.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“What we think of as our refuge and sanctuary, could easily become the place of our captivity.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Pomračenje

“people often mistake cautiousness for cowardice.

and vice versa.”
― Hazar Emiral

“Don`t fear a hidden dagger because you can dodge it, but fear a hidden dagger it kills”
― Gugu Mofokeng

“Except maybe that was the start of our failure to connect: me, failing to take the initiative. Me, being too cautious, lacking spontaneity or impulsivity. Me, reading things wrong and processing the world fifty times too slow.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse