Quotes About Discovery

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.

When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.

Like most children, he was on intimate terms with the earth. The under-tens deal in little sticks and pebbles; they are artisans of holes, experts in the types and properties of stones; they appreciate the many qualities of mud and its summer corollary, dust. And then they grow up, and the ground is just whatever's underfoot.

He felt a shiver of excitement at the thought that something lonely and wild lived somehwere near him, something that nobody else knew about. Perhaps he could make friends with it.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

Some of the best experiences are the most unexpected ones.

After all, I was a woman who regularly ran into things, who tripped and who sometimes felt frazzled. I found that some of the best things in life happened when you accidentally bumped into them.

maybe they aren't mistakes at all. Maybe it's just that the path to the place you're supposed to be is longer?

camp is—" "—the time for new experiences, I know," Natalie said

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

Absently, she wondered if finding one's place in the world always felt like this, as if an audible click could be heard

So that was what she'd "do" in this time. She'd be a fiancée. Sort of. A mystery fiancée. Apparently, she'd discovered a useful skill all by herself.

Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.

Somewhere in the state of Montana there had to be a woman he wanted to date more than once. Hell, he might propose on the second date if things ever got that far. All he had to do was find her.

Operation: Hansel & Gretel

I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory, too mercurial, to be one-sided, though it is human nature to prefer the reassurance and ease of firm judgement. Judgement helps us to justify our less savory actions.

I vaig começar a caminar altra vegada, a desfer camí.

I caught her one day eating a bee. When she realized I was watching, she spit it out, saying the bee had flown into her mouth. But I knew that she ate bees. She would choose the ones that had drunk the most wisteria juice and keep them alive in her mouth for a moment, let them play a little before swallowing.

What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

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