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Quotes About Discovery

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With
~ Jack Kornfield
Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.
~ Jack Kornfield
The place where we can most directly open to the mystery of life is in what we don't do well, in the places of our struggles and vulnerability. These places always require surrender and letting go: When we let ourselves become vulnerable, new things can be born in us. In risking the unknown we gain a sense of life itself. And most remarkably, that which we have sought is often just here, buried under the problem and the weakness itself.
~ Jack Kornfield
Magic is doing something the other guy can't do. We haven't learned how to do it yet, so it's magic. When we learn how and understand it, it's science.
~ Jack L. Chalker
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
~ Jack LaLanne
We range the day And mount the sun. We soar past the rim of the world, And know not caution nor fear. But too soon the night comes. –Sigma Hotel
~ Jack McDevitt
Push into your discomfort zone!
~ Unknown
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
~ Jack White
I think I have actually discovered the computer-like control and operating system for physical reality and the real world as we know it.
~ Unknown
Si descubría nuevos mundos, poco importaba que fuese por error.
~ Jack Williamson
I wonder-?" whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark. "I wonder what they really found?" "Whatever it is," breathed Barbee, "the find doesn't seem to have made them very happy. A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell." "No," the girl said, "men aren't that much afraid of hell.
~ Jack Williamson
Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.
~ Jack Zipes
At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just read about them. I want my life.
~ Jackie French
The road that was in your head Has already found you walking: When you looked up ahead, It was your footsteps waiting. - The Imaginary Road
~ Jackie Kay
I want to learn about other cultures. I want to hear other voices.
~ Unknown
And, sometimes, such stories, dreams, can only be told in questions, can only be found in answers.
~ Unknown
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
~ Jackson Pollock
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
~ Jackson Rathbone
You should have seen her this morning,' he said, smiling. 'She's got into the pantry and tipped a box of Cheerios all over the kitchen floor. I walk in and she's crawling around eating them as fast as she can. Mum's standing there, watching her - she got this embarrassed look when she saw me - she does, 'I know, I know, but I can't bring myself to stop her. She thinks she's hit the jackpot.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
All books have magical properties.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
And everywhere I turned: Riley and Amelia. I suppose this could have been because I was always following them around.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
Puedes andar con otra persona durante semanas y meses sin percibir los hermosos diseños de sus plumas. Y cuando finalmente los ves, te das cuenta que los has destrozado en mil pedazos.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
If the internet is a legal minefield, it's also an ocean of buried treasure; you just have to dig in the right place. Nights, Finnegan would find me in the study, clicking on links and comments.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty
If the internet is a legal minefield, it's also an ocean of buried treasure; you just have to dig in the right place.
~ Jaclyn Moriarty