Thought 14APR2011

ON RISK : To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, or love. Chained by his addictions, he's a slave. He has forfeited his greatest trait, and that is his individual freedom. Only the person who risks is free. Leo Buscaglia (1924 - 1998) - Educator and writer, Cited in BITS & PIECES Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do - French Proverb