RISKS
      To laugh is to risk appearing the 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 the 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 our risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in this life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love...live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is truly free.
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The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that make people despair. The law of life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.
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Emmet Fox
You know a person has reached the pinnacle of success when he shows as much happiness over an honor bestowed on someone he helped as he would if he had received it himself.
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The worst bankruptcy is the person who has lost enthusiasm.
Will St. John
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