“E chegou o dia em que o risco de continuar espremido dentro do botão era mais doloroso que o de desabrochar.”
Original
The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Frequently attributed to Nin, but without cited source in her work (possibly due to a quotation in Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions (2000) by Dan Millman that attributed the quote to Nin without source).
In March 2013, a former Director of Public Relations at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, Elizabeth Appell, claimed she had authored the quote in 1979 for an inspirational header on a class schedule: http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/
Disputed
Variante: The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
