While random surfing Wikiquote today, I came across two interesting quotes by Leo Buscaglia which i thought i should share with everyone.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.
There is nothing that is an accident.
You are a special combination for a purpose— and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that 'purpose is an illusion.' (Live an illusion if you have to).
You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do.
Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute.
The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry.
And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

Yes, we are all unique. All of us have a role to play in life and none of us are insignificant. Live your lives well and live it to the best. We all have a purpose in life, a purpose which we must fufil and will fufil. Then, life will be meaningful.

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 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 failure.
But risks must be taken.
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
If you risk nothing and do nothing, you dull your spirit.
You may avoid suffering and sorrow, but you cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live.
Chained by your attitude, you are a slave.
You have forfeited your freedom.
Only if you risk are you free.

To take a big step, we must always take risks in life. So be brave everyone, and lets take that big step forward. If we fail, its just a lesson we have learnt in life. After that, stand up again and move on.
Taking careful steps will only slow us down and restrict our movements. But its safe. While taking slow steps, I have the confidence that i will not fall.
I admit I myself do not like taking risks either. I always prefer to move along the safe path as I am afraid to fail. I am afraid of failure, thus I don't take risks. But to make a bigger step, I must take risks. I will learn to fall, to stand up again and to move on.
As we fall, we go through pain and sufferings.
Emotional pain.
We will definitely fall in life at some point of time.
None of us are perfect.
Lets just take it as a risk taken, a risk failed, a lesson learnt.
And let's move on. And be proud of ourselves.
Cause we have learnt, felt, changed, grown, loved, and lived
And we are free.