Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

Life is an affirmation, not a defamation. Life means living. Life means taking that one tiny or giant leap beyond what you know you can do, or simply beyond what you know. It is in these moments that we live.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.