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Quotes About Discovery

If we know exactly where were going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what well see along the way, we wont learn nothing.
~ Unknown
If you never take the chance to find out what could be, then you lose the chance to find out what would be.
~ Unknown
Step outside of your comfort zone. Never stop learning. Never stop growing.
~ Unknown
You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you'll always end up where you meant to be....
~ Unknown
Sometimes happiness is like a missing sock. You know it will turn up eventually, but it will probably be in the strangest place.
~ Unknown
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
~ Unknown
Don't be afraid to take an unfamiliar path, sometimes they're the ones that take you to the best places.
~ Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu
Being a teenager it's nearly impossible to find someone who is truly there for you. A lot of teenagers still don't know themselves.
~ Unknown
I'm tired of looking for the perfect guy. From now on.. he can look for me.
~ Unknown
Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire.
~ Unknown
You can't make them love you, but you can show them what they're missing out on.
~ Unknown
There is a source of incredible power within you. When you discover the truth of who you are, connect with it and embrace it, this truth can empower you to achieve major positive and lasting life changes.
~ Unknown
Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.
~ Unknown
could hear the tick of Saint-Loup's watch, which must have been somewhere near at hand. The tick changed place all the time, for I could not see the watch; it seemed to be coming from behind me, from in front, from my right, from my left, sometimes to die away as though it were coming from a long way off. Suddenly I caught sight of the watch on a table. So now I heard the tick in a fixed place, from which it did not move again.
~ Marcel Proust
You will find the Comte de Crisenoy," whom I had never lost, for the simple reason that I did not know him.
~ Marcel Proust
Obviously, we prefer to be praised rather than insulted and still more when a woman we love deceives us, what would we not give that it should be otherwise. But the resentment of the affront, the pain of the abandonment would in that event have been worlds we should never have known, the discovery of which, painful as it may be for the man, is precious for the artist. In spite of himself and of themselves, the mischievous and the ungrateful must figure in his work.
~ Marcel Proust
Or chaque jour était pour moi un pays différent.
~ Marcel Proust
Such grave uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is also the obscure country where it must seek and where all its baggage will be nothing to it.
~ Marcel Proust
We do not know where to find what we seek; and often we avoid for a long time the very place to which others, for other reasons, invite us, not knowing that it is the very spot where we could meet the one who is in our thoughts.
~ Marcel Proust
On ne reçoit pas la sagesse, il faut la découvrir soi-même après un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous épargner.
~ Marcel Proust
My first impression of them had been quite the opposite: I had found them very ordinary, just like anyone else, but this was because, before actually meeting them, I had seen them, as I saw Balbec, Florence, and Parma, as magical names.
~ Marcel Proust
It is often only for want of the creative spirit that we do not go far enough in suffering. And the most terrible reality brings us, at the same time as suffering, the joy of a beautiful discovery, for all that it does is to lend a new and explicit form to what we had long been turning over in our minds without suspecting
~ Marcel Proust
je cherche encore mon chemin, je tourne une rue… mais… c'est dans mon cœur…
~ Marcel Proust