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 your true self
To play your ideas & dreams before the 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 despair
To try is to Risk failure...
...but risk must be taken, because
the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
has nothing, and is nothing. One may
avoid some suffering and sorrow but one
simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live,
and love. Chained by one's certitudes, one
is a slave, one has forfeited freedom.
Only one who risks....is truly Free.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out for another is to risk involvement
To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self
To play your ideas & dreams before the 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 despair
To try is to Risk failure...
...but risk must be taken, because
the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
has nothing, and is nothing. One may
avoid some suffering and sorrow but one
simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live,
and love. Chained by one's certitudes, one
is a slave, one has forfeited freedom.
Only one who risks....is truly Free.
