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Quotes About Discovery

El propósito de la existencia es reparar, enmendar y soltar lo que no somos y descubrir quiénes somos en verdad.
~ Unknown
Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.
~ Unknown
Muchas veces la felicidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, esa esquina que nunca nos atrevemos a doblar.
~ Unknown
El propósito principal de este proceso es descubrir la Divinidad dentro de uno mismo.
~ Unknown
A loucura, objeto dos meus estudos, era até agora uma ilha perdida no oceano da razão; começo a suspeitar que é um continente.
~ Machado de Assis
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.
~ Machado de Assis
Odpov?? na otázku, pro? jsme tady, nám nedá to, co najdeme. Je skryta v d?vodu, pro? nem?žeme pÃ…â"¢estat hledat.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Books have a world all their own
~ Unknown
Kids start out meeting the world with wonder. It is our job to make sure that they don't lose their inborn curiosity, imagination, and creativity.
~ Unknown
That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.
~ Madeline Miller
I stepped into those woods and my life began.
~ Madeline Miller
Sorcery cannot be taught. You find it yourself, or you do not.
~ Madeline Miller
I found a new thought in myself. I am embarrassed to tell it, so rudimentary it seems, like an infant's discovery that her hand is her own. But that is what I was then, an infant. The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.
~ Madeline Miller
At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a montain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowedge that it could be done.
~ Madeline Miller
Odysseus drew the world to him," she said. "Telegonus runs after, shaping as he goes, like a river carving a channel.
~ Madeline Miller
No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.
~ Madeline Miller
When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.
~ Madeline Miller
At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a mountain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowledge that it could be done.
~ Madeline Miller
The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
~ Madeline Miller
It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise.
~ Madeline Miller
It is likely you are not a witch. But you are something else. Something you have not found yet. And that is why you go P.240
~ Madeline Miller
Islands were dangerous places. You met monsters as often as friends.
~ Madeline Miller
No wonder I had been so slow, I thought. All this while I had been a weaver without wool, a ship without sea. Yet look where I sail.
~ Madeline Miller
When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world
~ Madeline Miller