Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.
There is no security in following the call to adventure.
I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
America the brave Still fears what we don't know
Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.
I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.
Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.
Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.
I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?
When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.
