Quotes About Discovery

We find what we seek and pay attention to

Try something new. Try something strange. Expose yourself to flavors you've never considered before. Taste something - anything - that makes you stop for a moment and pay attention and experience.

I don't think I verbalized it to anyone, including myself, but I knew then that I wanted to be a perpetual traveler. I was happiest receiving and experiencing new information about the world, in situ.

What gives value to travel is fear.

All familiar things can open into strange worlds.

W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

uno hace descubrimientos extraños una vez que toca o es tocado, una vez que uno roza un muslo por accidente

uno nunca sale ligero ni indemne de las averiguaciones. Me

hotel de una ciudad nunca vista, elegida sólo al azar del anochecer: fingir que uno está soltero y sin responsabilidades, y sin nadie a quien regresar.

Blame Can Leave a Bad System Undiscovered

we don't know what we don't know.

So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.

He must have pressed the wrong button, or several of them, for when the door fretted open he found himself deep underground, with no heart to try again. The corridor was dark, the air heavy with must, the rooms on both sides quiet yet stirring, as though numb people within were digging themselves out.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

gentlemen, you are, as i am, in search of a woman who, must have passed this way, for i see a corpse.

E' necessaria la sventura per scavare certe misteriose miniere nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; serve la pressione per fare esplodere la polvere. La prigionia ha riunito in un punto solo tutte le mie facoltà, che fluttuavano quà e là, e sono venute a scontrarsi in uno spazio stretto: come sapete, dall'urto delle nubi scaturisce l'elettricità, dall'elettricità il lampo, dal lampo la luce

10 maggie and millie and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and millie befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world & as large as alone For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

One sign that you have found the characteristics of your heart is when your passion, purpose, talents and pain all come together and begin defining who you are.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.