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Quotes About Discovery

People speculate about intelligent life, and it's fun to think about, but no one is claiming to have found anyone to talk to out there. I don't care. Life alone is enough. I find it . . . more exciting and encouraging than I can explain, more important than I can explain. There is life out there.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Barbara County. My grandparents' maps helped us explore away from
~ Octavia E. Butler
Éramos batistas — falei. — Eu não conseguia acreditar, e não contava a ninguém. Meu pai era o ministro. Fiquei quieta e comecei a entender a Semente da Terra. — Começou a inventar a Semente da Terra — comentou ele. — Comecei a descobrir e a entendê-la — corrigi. — Encontrar a verdade não é a mesma coisa que inventar coisas.
~ Octavia E. Butler
DORO DISCOVERED THE WOMAN by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages.
~ Octavia E. Butler
discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The Rohkohn Hao, Tahneh, was sharing her evening meal with her chief judge and discussing the current drought when she first learned of the foreigners who had entered her territory.
~ Octavia E. Butler
That scares me to death sometimes—always feeling driven to do something I don't know how to do. But I'm learning as I go along.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
~ Octavio Paz
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
~ Octavio Paz
que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.
~ Octavio Paz
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.
~ Ogden Nash
LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
~ Ogden Nash
The seeker for perfection must discover in his own life the reflection of the inner light.
~ Okakura Kakuz?
In every darkness, there is enough light for you to discover your path. In every light, there is abundant darkness for you to miss your path
~ Unknown
If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.
~ Unknown
Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
~ Unknown
If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.
~ Unknown
been waiting all my life to meet you? Well, it applies to children. First as babies, but particularly once they've gotten old enough to have well-defined characters. It's completely true—you realize that you really have been waiting all your life to meet this person. There's nothing to compare to it.
~ Unknown
anywhere. There could be no new world, John
~ Unknown
to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return
~ Olga Tokarczuk
They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
checks the sick soggy plaster with his finger, the wet paint leaving a mark on his skin. The stains on the walls make maps of countries he can't recognize, he can't name.
~ Olga Tokarczuk