Andy Stanley Quotes

The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

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

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

You really can expand the boundaries of your life and do risky things and prove yourself by doing them.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

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

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.

We in middle age require adventure.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

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

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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