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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
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To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
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To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
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To expose feeling is to risk exposing your true self.
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To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
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To live is to risk dying.
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To hope is to risk despair.
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To try is to risk failure.
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But \u2026 risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
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He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
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Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited freedom.
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Only a person who risks is Free!\n

\u2014 Author unknown<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Taken from \u201cThe Cathedral Messenger\u201d [Volume 13, Number 7], a newsletter of St George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Cathedral<\/a>, Wichita, Kansas. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"