Quotes About Discovery

But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.

The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

If you don't know what you're looking for, it's not easy to look for it." Erika

Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.

Life is like a box of cookies.

If I had to say anything it'd be this: Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

It doesn't matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I'll always discover something new about myself.

Maybe in some distant place, everything is already, quietly, lost. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear. Or at least there exists a silent place where everything can disappear, melting together in a single overlapping figure. And as we live our lives we discover—drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each—what has been lost.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I'm terrible at finding the right words for things. I'm sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

Lo que sea que estés buscando no va a llegar en la forma que lo esperas

Probably is a world you my find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

Have you ever had that feeling? That you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.

I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in.

You finally fall asleep. And when you wake up, it's true. You are part of a brand-new world.

It was like a tight knot inside me was gradually loosening, a knot I'd never even realized, until then, was there.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

It's like I'd been born with a blind spot, and was always missing something. And what I missed was always the most important thing of all.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don't necessarily end up so. That's the feeling I have, as someone who's felt this, who's experienced it.

the world's filled with things I don't know about.