facing the unfamiliar Quotes

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

The courage to try something new makes me proud.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.