Only a Person Who Risks is Free. by an Unknown author

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose 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 believe 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 people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel,
Change, grow, love, live.
Changed by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their
Freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.