Braving the Unknown Quotes

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

The higher a monkey climb, the more he expose.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

I will walk where failures fear to walk.

To move past fear is a cliche.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Every journey starts with fear.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.