Courage will come to you.  Just start with a simple

• Never miss the unknown.
• Always choose the unknown and go headlong.
• Even if you suffer, it is worth it – it always pays.
• You always come out of it more grown up, more mature, more intelligent.

Basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is.

To live dangerously means to live life as if each moment is its own end. Each moment has its own intrinsic value, and you are not afraid. You know death is there, and you accept the fact that death is there, and you are not hiding against death. In fact, you go and encounter death.  You enjoy those moments of encountering death – physically, psychologically, and spiritually.

Those brakes are provided by your fear of the unknown.

You will be surprised, but this is my experience of thousands of people: they cling to their misery for the simple reason that they have grown a certain kind of friendship with misery. They have lived with it so long that now to leave it will almost be like a divorce.