Quotes About Discovery

The journey was more important than the place; most important was to return home, with crumpled maps, salt and pepper shakers shaped like clam shells, a sweatshirt with whales on it, and be able to say: I have been there, I have gone on a journey, I have come safely home.

You have a name and a destiny. I can only believe that sooner or later you will stumble across some hope.

Patricia Brennan Demuth

Angel discovered an open suitcase and clothes tossed

Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now, because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.

You know, you look very fine, Carol said. You've come out all of the sudden. Is that what comes of getting away from me? No, Therese said quickly. She frowned down at the tea she didn't want. Carol's phrase come out had made her think of being born, and it embarrassed her. Yes, she had been born since she left Carol. She had been born the instant she saw the picture in the library, and her stifled cry then was like the first yell of an infant, being dragged into the world against its will.

I am the forever-seeking.

Todavía sonreía, como si no acabara de aprender a sonreír y no supiera cómo parar.

Starbucks itself is a product of diverse global cultures: "Starbuck's customers, whether in Zurich or Beirut, are drinking an American version of an Italian evolution of a beverage invented by Arabs brewed from a bean discovered by Africans."71

As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened. For

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other person think out the conclusion?

Once he found learning was easy, his whole life changed.

Não é possível ensinar qualquer coisa a um homem. Só é possível ajudá-lo a descobri-la dentro de si.

1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at the Montreal General Hospital

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.

Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The

he ruined soul must be willing to recognize its own ruin before it can discover how to enter a different path

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler