Thursday, November 8, 2012

Risk

To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken
because the greatest hazard
in life is to risk nothing.
The person who
risks nothing,
does nothing,
has nothing,
is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and
sorrow, but they cannot
learn,
feel,
change,
grow,
love,
live.
Chained by their certitudes,
they are as a slave,
they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

~Anonymous

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