Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

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 don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I was in a comfortable situation, I was on tour, it was cool, but it wasn't at all what I wanted to do. So I had to leave it, start over. My friends were like, 'You were doing something, now you're back at day one.' So people kind of look at you different when you start over. Everyone needs to challenge themselves like that.

The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

The miracle often lies outside our comfort zone.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

You only know who you think you are. You sort of feel like you could change at any minute.

Everyone's "journey" is different. Obviously with mine, I've had some amazing breaks, but then you have to be ready to seize the moment when the timing and the luck line up. You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.

I personally think that you have to get lost to find something really worthwhile, at least sometimes.