There is no security TO life. Then where is the question of security IN life. The need for security keeps you transfixed in life. Then where is question of transcendence. Our comfort zones become our prison, within which our potential remains locked up. Imagine a banyan tree growing inside a pot - only a bonsai is possible. It may be artistic, but it doesn't serve the purpose for which it was born. There is security in remaining a seed whereas a plant is always vulnerable. But then, what is the purpose of the seed? It contains a thousand forests within. It is only in its transcendence into a plant the possibilities of a forest exist. If you do not dare to give up certainty for uncertainty, you will not move ahead. Growth is in giving up what you are to become what you can be. It is astonishing as to how the world makes way for a resolute soul! It is amazing how obstacles move out of the path of a man who chooses to transcend, than to remain transfixed. Throw yourself into the unknown. Make a rebellious move. Take a daring plunge. Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. There are no risks… only opportunities. The higher and the beyond are awaiting us…...
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo FBuscaglia
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Annie Dillard
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. - M. Scott Peck
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. - Napoleon Bonaparte
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo FBuscaglia
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Annie Dillard
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. - M. Scott Peck
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide
I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Tennyson
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. - Napoleon Bonaparte
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck
This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. - Brooks Atkinson
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca
A ship in harbour is safe but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm
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