Quotes About Discovery

We are all like the clay Buddha covered with a shell of hardness created out of fear, and yet underneath each of us is a 'golden Buddha' a 'golden Christ' or a 'golden essence,' which is our real self....Much like the monk with the hammer and the chisel, our task now is to discover our true essence once again.

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

There is no single market secret to discover, no single correct way to trade the markets. Those seeking the one true answer to the markets haven't even gotten as far as asking the right question, let alone getting the right answer.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

Álvarez de Pineda's

Following the coast northward, he named the terra firma off his port side La Florida in recognition of the Easter season, known in Spain as Pascua Florida, "feast of flowers.

En route, he identified a few rivers, including what seems to be the Mississippi (a river he named Espiritu Santo, after "Holy Spirit"), which to European nations would become the most important river in North America.

I keep trying to feel who I was, and cannot. — Jack Gilbert, from "Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina," Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012)

Property is often left on the trains of the London Underground. Unusual items that have found their way into the lost property office include a coffin, a samurai sword, a stuffed puffer fish and a human skull.

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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend. – I already have and lost it in the finding.

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

What a terrible time to find out how good life can be, I thought. And how good to find out anyway.

my drug was knowing. Knowing what was possible. Knowing how far it could go.

George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind

If we gain something, it was there from    the beginning. If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.

The root of the problem is that everyone has to first discover the root of anger and hatred inside themselves before they can understand how it operates in the outside world.

human freedom must come from practicing a life of inner and outer balance, and he called this discovery the Middle Path.