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Quotes About Discovery

Adventure must start with running away from home.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.
~ Tom Waits
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
~ Alexander Eliot
I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.
~ Nicole Polizzi
The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
~ Horace Kephart
Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look.
~ Jacques Lecoq
The moment you've uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you're already turning towards home.
~ David Whyte
We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
~ Hermann Hesse
When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
~ Heath Ledger
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!
~ L. Frank Baum
At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.
~ Warsan Shire
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
~ Elliott Erwitt
You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
~ Tove Jansson
It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
~ Jerry Spinelli
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
~ Bill Moyers
The only reason a road is good as every wanderer knows / Is just because of the homes, the homes, the homes to which one goes
~ Joyce Kilmer
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
~ Shauna Niequist
You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
~ Bob Dylan
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
~ John Cage