Quotes About Discovery

I was seventeen and there were so many things I didn't know yet, but I knew about hiding.

The hardest thing in this world is finding out what you're capable of.

Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

She was the one who showed me all the dark wonders of life, the real life, the life I'd only seen flickering from the corner of my eye. Did I ever feel anything at all until she showed me what feeling meant? Pushing at the corners of her cramped world with curled fists, she showed me what it meant to live.

Mama had never said anything of her family having such wealth, not once, in all our years of suffering. But then again, neither had she told me she had a sister. I should not be surprised. She'd kept so many secrets. But this . . . Why had she said nothing of this?

You must tell me the truth. I've seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.

Then, at last, I had what I didn't know I was looking for: the antidote to my loneliness, which shriveled and withered away. Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much of me it had been.

The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I'll never think of those places the same way again.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What's really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

What if I could be happy with Will? Really happy. Not settling. What if I have waited my whole life to find this person who fits me like the missing piece of my puzzle? What if my entire life has led to this point, not to teach me a lesson about appreciating what I have, but to help me let it all go?

We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.

How could I have lived my entire life without knowing this man? His eyes are gray and green, and I smooth my fingertips over the arches of his brows. I touch the sleekness of the hair that falls in front of his ears.

That's what it means. One day you will run toward something instead of away, and then you will understand.

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

Observation is a great joy." To write one's observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.

to the North

These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.

A beautiful road is a beautiful friend; you never get bored with it!

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!