Quotes About Discovery

I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated canvases I conscientiously cover with great streaks straining to say what even I am begining to suspect is the unsayable thing, and I grow frightened.

They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

When I ran from Janice I made an interesting discovery. The tears bubble over her lids and the salty taste of pool-water is sealed into her mouth. If you have the guts to be yourself, he says, other people'll pay your price.

He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I'm outside or is it all America?

you were sent into life with several pieces of misinformation about dealing with loss. The six we have identified so far are: Don't feel bad. Replace the loss. Grieve alone. Just give it time. Be strong for others. Keep busy. None of these ideas leads us to the actions of discovering and completing the unfinished emotions that accrue in all relationships.

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

A Successful Journey Is the Destination

You often find what you're looking for.

I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it's often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right...

You could go along for years thinking you knew a person's story and then come upon a chapter that knocked your socks off.

known. If you are completely preoccupied with what is already known, you can't make the leap into that other dimension of creativity or imagination or poetry, or whatever it is that allows for seeing a hidden order in things which, until it is seen and realized, it isn't seen at all.

A human being must have an auxiliary means of discovering the truth, a means that exists outside of his own belief or outside any alleged revelation. Otherwise…well, who's to say he isn't insane?

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance.

You ought to explore, search and seek the unlimited possibilities in life

The greatest rewards lie in the unknown.

I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.