To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
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 to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
BUT RISKS 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.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and
live.
Chained by their certitude they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free!
William Arthur Ward
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
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 to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
BUT RISKS 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.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and
live.
Chained by their certitude they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free!
William Arthur Ward
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