Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing to be sentimental.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failure.
But risk we must, because the greatest hazard in life
is to risk nothing.
The man, the woman, who risks nothing does nothing,
has nothing, is nothing.

(Anonymous)