Quotes About Discovery

An alien spacecraft. I'm sure of it." "…craft?…

This approach is not about acquiring more self-discipline or willpower. It's about personally discovering what nourishes you, what feeds you, and ultimately what makes your life extraordinary.

I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had passed the haunts of savages. Great piles of granite mountains of bleak and lifeless aspect were now astern ;

when and if we are ever alone, I expect the real Lord Fenton to be there, assuming you know where to find him.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

Once lost, they are rarely found.

I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. / I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn't have at dusk.

Funny how much I've read about this place for months—pages and pages of history. And no idea how little I knew until I came for myself.

Every great life should have a mystery at its center.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

The search for the divine in its simplest terms is the search for that portion of the creative universe that intersects with you personally.

the thing was, not to go home.

The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes

THE NEXT DAY THEY FOUND the body of Charlene Gray lying in a thicket of young madrone just below the Steep Ravine Trail, near where it intersected with Little Salmon Creek.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time. —Laurie Gough

I am all that I am not, and I am not what I shall become—who knows?

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Extraer la belleza del mundo, incluso aunque esté oculta a simple vista.

A alma é feita de pequenos compartimentos, uns dentro dos outros, como uma boneca russa. Se continuarmos a abrir, a abrir, acabamos por encontrar a última das bonecas. E o seu rosto nunca é como o da boneca maior.

Nunca ha dejado de extrañarme, por eso, que el vínculo más cercano del boom latinoamericano, dentro de la tradición de nuestra lengua, se remonte a esas narraciones que surgieron del Descubrimiento, y en muchos casos —pensemos en la lealtad que Vargas Llosa y García Márquez siempre le han jurado a la novela de caballerías, uno a Tirant le Blanc, y el otro a Amadís de Gaula— a momentos anteriores.

He reads the Caribbean maritime memoirs of Frederick Benton Williams and the Paraguayan terrestrial memoirs of George Frederick Masterman. He reads Cunninghame Graham's books (Hernando de Soto, Vanished Arcadia), and books that Cunninghame Graham recommends: Wild Scenes in South America, by Ramón Páez, and Down the Orinoco in a Canoe, by Santiago Pérez Triana.

Faayalo zweegbe. —Sólo aquel que va en busca del agua puede romper el cántaro.