Risk

A daily occurrence

An extensive and witty compilation of thoughts on freedom, self-realization and the daily need for risk, illustrated with informal and energetic brush calligraphy.

“To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk ridicule. 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 risks 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, love, live. Chained by his servitude, he is a slave, he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”