Quotes About Discovery

Por qué no podía, al menos por una vez, descubrir que tenía poderes mágicos? No era justo, a las chicas americanas en las películas siempre les ocurría...

Just when you think you've got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you're heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you're lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction.

I'm not really sure why I'm here. You see, everyone has a purpose, they're all going somewhere or doing something. I really have no idea why I'm here.

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

Svi se katkad izgubimo, katkad svojevoljno, a katkad zbog silnica nad kojima nemamo nadzora. Kad nau?imo ono što naša duša treba nau?iti, ukaže nam se put. Katkad vidimo put, ali protiv svoje volje bauljamo dalje i dublje. Strah, srdžba ili tuga prije?e nam put natrag. Katkad nam je draže biti izgubljen, katkad je tako lakše. A katkad sami prona?emo izlaz. Bilo kako bilo, svaki put na koncu budemo prona?eni - Mjesto zvano Ovdje

I never wanted anything new; from the age of ten, I was convinced that you couldn't replace what was lost. I insisted on things on having to be found.

She nodded, even though everyone knows that the first time, for anything, is rarely the last.

Next year at this time, we're going to be hanging out with some new bunch of friends we met at college. People we don't even know exist yet.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

The book is also about cultivating the desire to live a remarkable life. Strangely, we don't all set out on the quest to lead remarkable lives when we start our careers. Most of us are content to go with the flow. Our expectations have been lowered for us by the media and by our friends, acquaintances, and family members. So, leading a remarkable life is something you have to discover as even being a reasonable goal. It's not obvious.

Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important thing that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them- ordinary things is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly," I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to his son Lucien, "that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.… You must harness yourself to drawing.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed, Lev. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it.

As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them—'ordinary things' is a better expression. That is the way the world is.

it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

life at its most complete and comfortable can feel like you've suddenly discovered yourself sous-viding in a plunge tub set exactly at your body temperature. One day the water's no longer fine, which is when you crave a chill in your gut, a fresh sear on your chicken-tender ass, something to pep you the fuck up.

You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

I was surprised to find out there was a direct line from my palm to my, my, hootchie.

Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.

Then I happened upon a whore.