Quotes About Discovery

It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .

What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your trade or area of expertise? "' Follow your dreams.' It's impossible to do without self-knowledge, which takes years. You discover your 'dream' (or sense of purpose) in the very act of walking the path, which is guided by equal parts choice and chance.

But," you might ask, "what about a first, like colonizing Mars?" There are still recipes. Look

If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.

far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.

what if I asked 100+ brilliant people the very questions I want to answer for myself? Or somehow got them to guide me in the right direction?

camino no se acaba nunca y que nadie ha conseguido culminarlo.»

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years—to travel the world on your own terms. But

How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love.»

Descubres tu "sueño" (u objetivo en la vida) a medida que recorres el camino,

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.

If my life is a house," she said, "you haven't even gotten to the living room.

I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I'd never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I'd never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries." "How

In God's plan, this quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.

The last Lithuanian grand duke who even knew the Lithuanian language died the year Columbus discovered America.

Dice, l'importante è trovare sé stessi, ma il problema è che non sono ancora riuscito a perdermi.

Ho trovato donna della mia vita! - Bene, adesso ti basta trovare una vita e sei a posto.

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.

Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella meta; il fine del viaggiare è il viaggiare stesso e non l'arrivare.

Vivo ora, qui, con la sensazione che l'universo è straordinario, che niente ci succede per caso e che la vita è una continua scoperta. E io sono particolarmente fortunato perché, ora più che mai, ogni giorno è davvero un altro giro di giostra.

Avanzar, buscar, buscar lo otro. Ocuparse de todo lo que es distinto. Salir de los caminos trazados. Viajar ha sido importantísimo para mí. Esa sensación de descubrimiento ha sido importantísima. Ésa era mi vida, no me detenía nada.

La grande scoperta che ho fatto a Daigo è che si hanno dentro ancora (certo un bel giorno poi no!) tante e tante risorse che basta mettersi nelle condizioni per farle venir fuori. La solitudine, il prender distanza dal mondo, lp star lontano dalle gabbie in cui uno per necessità o per malriposto senso del dovere si mette, servono enormemente. Se ci aggiungi la natura, la formula mi pare infallibile.

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.