What joke?
Actually, no … Not only is your quote not as expressive as the original quote, but it loses its intended meaning. By taking out ‘more painful’ we would not be able to tell whether the risk to remain is painful to begin with …more painful is key and sets the tone of the quote … stop trying to be profound

I understand the quote and I think it’s wrong. I know that sounds like a stupid thing to say, but I never said I wasn’t stupid, so!

I think instead of saying “more painful”, it should have said “greater” or “bigger”.

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom. ~Hamzeh N.”

Did I write it as ‘bloom’? I apologize if that threw you off

you cannot force it to blossom … It’s a gradual process … hope is an essential thing to have … without it life is meaningless… a quote I recalls speaks of hope as faith holding out its hand in the dark. and as Emily Dicknson says Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.

God willing, the outcome you’ll see is nothing less than what you have in mind

Sometimes we just have to be bold enough and take the inititative to get what ever it is we have in mind accomplished!

Beleive me when I received that msg from you I was like: How did she know?!

Well, I’m trying to tear the bud apart, but not pretty sure of the outcome, I’m just hopeful.