Words to live by...

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental

To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self

To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss

To love is to risk not being loved in return

To live is to risk dying

To try at all is to risk failure

But to 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.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson