Quotes About Discovery

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

What shall we do there? Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.

Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being?

We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.

Once, oh marvelous once, there was a rabbit who found his way home.

I don't know, Louisiana. I can't see into the future. I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.

He must, he realized, know somewhere, deep inside him, more things than he had ever dreamed of.

Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.

Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word quest lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on

What if you like the elephant were gone to the place you were meant, after all, to be?

Baby leaned back in her seat. The train seemed to be going faster, and from somewhere far away Baby heard music. It was a song that she knew but couldn't quite place. Do you hear music? she said to Sheila. I hear something, said Sheila. She closed her eyes. She was quiet. I've got a physics professor who says that the stars sing to each other all the time. Isn't that cool? Maybe the music we're hearing is the stars singing.

The world was so dark! I don't know that I had ever before encountered such darkness.

HE WILL BECOME KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS ULYSSES! Holy

Who was I without the Flying Elefantes? Who was I without Granny? And who was I without a curse upon my head?

will be a scientific adventure.

away from the car.

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.

I thought I was going nowhere, but now I see there was a pattern.

I don't expect you to believe it, but I have another idea—that's two in one day;

If one does not hope one will not find the unhoped for, since there is no trail leading to it, and no path." —HERACLEITUS OF EPHESUS

You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there.... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.

He laughed. "But I love to ride, just as—as fire loves to burn. I love to see the mountains in the winter, the sea and the northern hills in the summer. Would you live forever in one place, never seeing another?

Dortchen was called the wild one because one day, when she was seven years old, she had got lost in the forest. She had wandered off to a far-distant glade where a willow tree trailed its branches in a pool of water. Dortchen crept within the shadowy tent of its branches and found a green palace. She wove herself a crown of willow tendrils and collected pebbles and flowers to be her jewels. At last, worn out, she lay down on a velvet bed of moss and fell asleep.