Risk

To Laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To Weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To Reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To Expose feeling is to risk exposing our true self.

To Place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.

To Love is to risk not being loved in return.

To Live is to risk crying.

To Hope is to risk despair.

To Try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life it to risk nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow.

But he simply cannot learn, fell, change, grow, love, live.

Chained by his certitudes, He is a slave, He has forfeited his freedom.

Only a person who risks ... is free.

-Author Unknown