Quotes About Discovery

I had this wonderful feeling inside as I ran. Like I'd gotten a sneak peek into love, and it was okay in there.

Look for strength in unexpected places.

There are all manner of things that scare us at some point in our lives, but then later we find out they really never meant to hurt us anyway.

It's hard to find a particular place when you don't one hundred percent know you're even looking for it,

Really? So what did you come over here to say?" "I'm not sure, actually. I just knew I needed an idea. I thought you might have one. I didn't expect one to be dropped into my lap. But I guess life is like that sometimes." "Much of the time as you let it be,

Look for strength in unexpected places." Not only might you find it there, but it might be more beautiful and more hopeful than strength found anywhere else. Here's to strength

She half stood, half floated in the water, absorbing the totality of Lance and Neal having so much shared history. So much life with each other that Roseanna knew nothing about. It felt as though someone had been watching her through one-way mirrored glass while staying safely anonymous and hidden himself. It also meant there was a great deal of her son's life that she had missed, but that much she'd known already. It just hurt to get a good look at it in retrospect.

man—I think his name was Frank—hauled me out of there and asked who I belonged to, but by then I'd forgotten. By then I thought I belonged to the earth and the sky, and the sharp, pushing blades of grass that grew for me. Simon came and found me in time, and from

But there was a definite sense that all bets were off now. The line she had so carefully toed all her life was just a smudge in the dirt behind her. Bea did not feel inclined to look back. Life was new. Not good. Just new.

Can children grasp the full meaning of Christ's coming, death, and resurrection? Can we as adults? No, but awareness of the mystery draws us to explore, wonder, and discover more and more, year after year.

children not only remember the facts and sequence of the events in stories but are also able to discover meaning in them.

When we give children opportunity to meet God, we are not attempting to force something unnatural on them. Children are born with the potential for spiritual experience, and God is the one who stimulates the activation of that potential.

Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.

A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.