Quotes About Discovery

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

With these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

He was a detective, but he didn't detect anything. It fell into his lap, already broken, every time.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.

How do you tell someone that you weren't the person he thought you were? And more importantly, how did you tell him that you'd meant the things you'd said, when everything else about you turned out to be a lie.

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

Explore the endless opportunities in life.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

If you want to find your greatest love, it will be inside the hardest thing you do.That's where it will be