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Quotes About Discovery

And anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.
~ Paulo Coelho
This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it.
~ Paulo Coelho
I, too, get scared, but it's at such moments that I discover a wisdom that is beyond me, and I go forward.
~ Paulo Coelho
Yo te amo porque tuve un sueño, encontré un rey, vendí cristales, crucé el desierto, los clanes declararon la guerra, y estuve en un pozo para saber dónde vivía un Alquimista. Yo te amo porque todo el Universo conspiró para que yo llegara hasta ti.
~ Paulo Coelho
This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.
~ Paulo Coelho
You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven't yet found the ship, nor have you loaded your bags, nor crossed the sea. Why spend time commenting on what it is like, or how one should walk through its streets?
~ Paulo Coelho
If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
~ Paulo Coelho
And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead, copper, and iron have their own Personal Legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own." The
~ Paulo Coelho
I need the words to find the music!
~ Pearl Cleage
Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith
~ Pearl S. Buck
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~ Pearl S. Buck
she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.
~ Unknown
True freedom comes as we discover and accept the person God created us to be. It grows as we follow the teachings our Creator gave to ensure freedom on the part of those who chose to obey those teachings.
~ Unknown
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
~ Pema Chodron
Live your life as an experiment.
~ Pema Chodron
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.
~ Pema Chodron
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is, how we tick and how our world ticks, how the whole thing just is.
~ Pema Chodron
Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
~ Pema Chodron
Like a treasure found at home, enriching me without fatigue, you, my dear troublemaker, are the means by which a confused person like me will attain enlightenment.
~ Pema Chodron
You are offered the potential of opening up into the as-yet unknown, the much bigger world where there are smells you've never smelled, there are sights you've never seen, and there are sounds you've never heard. What you could experience is so much vaster than what you currently experience. Let's go in that direction. TS:
~ Pema Chodron
Then we refuse to laugh or let go, because we might discover—who knows what?
~ Pema Chodron
Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.
~ Pema Chodron