Risk

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• To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
• To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
• To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
• To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
• To place your ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
• To love is to risk not being loved in return.
• To live is to risk dying.
• To hope is to risk despair.
• To cry is to risk failure.
• But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing.
• The people who risk nothing do nothing, have nothing, are nothing, and become nothing.
• They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn to feel, and change, and grow, and love, and live.
• Chained by their servitude, they are slaves; they’ve forfeited their freedom.
• Only the people who risk are truly free.