You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore

You can never cross the ocean: This is a beautiful quote that represents our attitude to fear and risks in life. The ocean represents our comfort zone, areas which we are aware of. Beyond this comfort zone is a new world that demands exploration – even to know what all we are capable of. We can’t cross this ocean unless we build the courage to lose sight of our safety net. This safety net is the shore and everything that holds us to what we know. Ahead of all this is a world of unknown, beyond our imagination that fuels our imaginative spirit and courage. This quote talks about crossing the ocean and being able to lose sight of the shore.

You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore

– Christopher Columbus

This in parallel represents going beyond our comfort zone, facing our challenges and creating new paths in unchartered waters.

You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless

This is the first step for us to identify our risks. This is about all the things that we are afraid of losing. No matter where we are, our life has both the comfortable side and the risky side. The comfort side has things such as job, our physical capacity, quality of our relationships etc. Beyond this comfort zone is the world of unknown.

You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore - Christopher Columbus
You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore – Christopher Columbus

This world of the unknown has many risks and challenges. These challenges can be daunting and make us wonder whether we even need to take them on. The first thing most of us do is to approach this with fear. Fear is good because it tells us what’s important to us. It also sends us a message to find a way to protect the things that are precious to us. Unfortunately, most of us worry about this fear and stop taking action. But, it is beyond this fear where our results and amazement lie.

Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore

The courage to lose sight of the shore is beyond courage – it is about creating a safety net for ourselves. It is difficult to risk when everything including your life is at stake. However, this risk can be reduced by creating a safety net and protecting what’s most important to us. Once we lose sight of the shore, it is natural for us to get afraid. It represents the world as we know it. But there comes a time where we have to give up a few things to get something better.

And this is the courage to lose sight of the shore – unless you build this courage, you can never cross the ocean. The ship is always safe at the shore, but that’s not what it was built for. Our lives are secure in our comfort zone, unless we go beyond them, we won’t know what we are capable of.

You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore

– Christopher Columbus

5 thoughts on “You Can Never Cross The Ocean Unless You Have the Courage To Lose Sight Of The Shore”

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  2. Thank you Nikhil. I guess there will always be those things which we will be afraid of. I have personally never met someone who has been a daredevil or said that they are not afraid of anything in life. There is usually something or the other that bothers, but how people respond to it is something which amazes me. It makes me realise that there is so much strength within us that the moment we accept it and start working on what we think is important, life takes some brilliant turns :)

  3. True Pooja, it all starts from taking those tiny little actions. Words sometimes become worthless unless we fulfil them by actions and fears are a huge obstacle in that process!

  4. Brilliantly said. If we are controlled or dominated by our fears, they are not going to allow us to enjoy the beauty that we will feel after surmounting them. Some calculated risks are worth taking because they keep alive the spirit of life i.e. realizing something better hidden in ourselves that we need to know.

  5. we can never accomplish our goals if we don’t have the courage to take the first step.
    that is how we will be part of our happiness in success and make parents proud also to be a yield for the nation…………….

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