venturing into the unfamiliar Quotes

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is yourself left over from yesterday. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

It's scary to take risks and it's scary to get out of your comfort zone, but it's also the most rewarding when you do.