Quotes About Discovery

We decided he might like to know about the people and places that belong to him now so he can begin a story all his own.

If he was going to find what he was seeking, he'd have to look, it was that simple. "Show me, Lord," he prayed aloud. "Lead me there and open my heart to Your wisdom….

A journey need not be long, in terms of time, to turn everything upside down. A day or two in a strange place can change your life

Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)

Find what brings you joy and go there.

Self discovery is something you cannot buy

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

Life has a way of uncovering secrets, usually at the worst moment possible. How we choose to deal with them is what makes us better than those who kept them in the first place.

Ida Belle grabbed the purse, her arms dropping a bit, then set it on the coffee table. I leaned over as she pulled out a small retail store. Nine-

When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song comes on the radio just when you longed for it, you have the same initials as the boy for whom you're sick, secret messages await you in poems. It's like living in a net of logic, of systems of words and significance.

Where identity is not fixed, performance becomes a floating anchor." And could I perform! Making the unreal seem real, the sad seem happy, hoping that somewhere along the way it would all work out, that I would discover who I was. Meantime I had an anchor.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough to have discovered the reasons behind his insecurity, and do something about them." ...Lucy

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Wherever the gaze rests, art will draw it also elsewhere, will remind that there is always more. Alice does not stop and face her own reflection in the looking-glass: she travels through it.

Little soul, you have wandered lost a long time.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

discovered in herself a still, quiet center she had never suspected to exist.

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures.

He is a small scientist using his hands, mouth, and imperfect coordination to determine the properties of the marvelous world around him. Your real tasks as a parent are prevention, vigilance—and very quick reflexes.

don't get the impression that your baby needs constant stimulation. Babies need private time to explore by themselves.

Keep your eyes peeled. You might just see Christmas yet