H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

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."

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

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

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

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

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

Take risks and try new things.

A few people weren't sure when I first told them about Dortmund, but I felt this was the best journey for me. Just try it, you know? I like trying new things, so it didn't really faze me.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

If you don't take risks in your life, you never feel something new, so I taste something new, and I like that.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

When we stop taking risks, we stop living.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Focus on what you want to do, don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. You gotta take risks at times

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.

I like new challenges and new experiences.

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.

I'm becoming more adventurous.