To laugh is to risk looking like a fool.
To weep is to risk seeming sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk committing.
To expose your ideas and dreams with others, is to risk losing them.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk failure.
But we must take risks, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Those who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing. May avoid suffering and pain, but can not learn, feel, grow, love or live.
They are slaves chained to their attitudes, have lost the right to freedom.
Only one who risks is free.
