Quotes About Discovery

Learning was like playing, not labor.

not believing that a person you loved—yes, he had loved her—could end up being someone you never knew.

Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you . I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old, already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.

So You've Just Finished Chelsea Handler's Book, Now What?

I'd had to cross the ocean to discover myself, and now I was ready to return in faith, knowing God had something planned for me and I would simply need to trust.

you cannot remain on your meditation cushion forever. You must go out and explore life as well.

One should never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop going on adventures. Be like the explorers of old. What they acquired for themselves will always surpass those who merely read about their exploits.

Don't be afraid to explore; Without exploration there are no discoveries. Don't be afraid of partial solutions; Without the tentative there is no accomplishment.

No vinc d'enlloc i escric per sobreviure. Desfaig camins perquè no sé dreceres

El retrato de ese momento explica qué llena la vida del explorador: lo que importa no es tanto el destino como acercarse a él.

If only you look, you'll find that right in that hole is something you've desperately needed to complete your journey successfully. And you wouldn't have found it if you hadn't fallen in that hole.

It was always to free up some part of themselves that never would've come to light. Now they could burst free. And this part of themselves that was freed pointed directly toward where they would feel at home in the world.

Discovering a hidden talent is actually a very big deal. It can save your life, as it did for my mother. It can save your emotional life, giving you the hope and energy to go on, as it did for Josie. It can save the life of the real you, the part of you that's special.

I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?

And she felt a real sense of loss. Even though she knew she had never had an accent. It was the birthmark, which in its density had lent color even to her voice. She didn't miss the birthmark, but she missed her Norwegian heritage, like learning of new relatives, only to discover they have just died.

Recordé entonces que en la profundidad de nuestro cerebro existe una zona llamada Isla. Que todos tenemos una isla sumergida en las profundidades de la mente y que la buscamos desesperados, como el diamante fundido de nuestro ser. Que nosotros mismos, y nuestro mundo, estamos profundamente hundidos en las aguas del tiempo y de la memoria universales.

Después de leer decenas de miles de libros, no puedes evitar preguntarte: ¿dónde ha estado mi vida durante todo este tiempo?

C?ut?m prosteÈ™te, c?ut?m în locuri în care nu e nimic de g?sit, ca p?ianjenii ce-È™i È›es plasa în s?li de baie în care nicio musc?, niciun È›ânÈ›ar nu poate p?trunde.

Noi nu suntem obiecte, ci procese. Eu sunt, în cele din urm?, c?utarea mea de sine. Exist pentru c? m? caut pe mine însumi. Nu m? caut ca s? m? g?sesc: faptul c? m? caut pe mine însumi este semnul c? deja m-am g?sit.

you must understand there is nothing noble in failing to discover and cultivate your pleasures. (It will make you not only fat, but grouchy.)

For this reason, three months is the usual time to find your way. But you must enjoy the ride.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.