Quotes About Discovery

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.

I never thought it could be like this with someone. I never imagined that I would ever feel this connected to anyone, this whole. I've never felt this terrified either.

the quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

This is needle-in-haystack shit. And the haystack is made of needles. On a needle planet.

I feel like I'm finally whole. I'm five thousand years old," he rasped. "But the day you found me in the woods, that's when my life started.

She sank down in the chair again, gingerly, as if it would splinter. It might. Hades had made it himself, discovering in the process that he was a better Lord of Souls than he was Lord of Furniture.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.

Antonio Machado (Spanish poet): Your walking, your footprints are the road and nothing else; there is no road, walker; You make the road by walking.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

But what made John Lennon different from all but a few superstars was not just his willingness, but his insistence on sharing his life with others. He shared the moments of doubt, pain, humiliation, and discovery -in all their glory and pathos- with his fans through his songs.

Do you think they'll find a cure before I. . . How strange that sounds when you say it out loud for the first time.

My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

The knowing of what she wanted rose up the way waters did from streams underground, so quietly you didn't notice until you slipped on the slicked-down stone.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been. Home. When you weren't sure you'd ever get to have one.

That sometimes you find your way to the place that wants you most.

I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

In other words, what your desires are whispering to you may actually be the key to something bigger than a day at the beach.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

No tenía claro a dónde debía dirigirse, pero confiaba en que, cuando llegara ahí, lo sabría. Porque los árboles estarían cantando.

Dentro de ti hay muchos más de lo que tú imaginas