
Another text that says a lot for me :
Courage
To laugh is to risk being 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 is 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,
Has nothing,
Does nothing,
And is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live or love.......
Chained by their uncertainties they are enslaved,
They have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
Anon-