Another text that I found online somewhere once.
Risks
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk dispair.
To try is to risk failure.
The person who risks nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow,
love, live
Chained by their attitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their
freedom.
Only a person who risks is FREE...
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