Quotes About Discovery

the room had been lost 'til then. So, if you were in a room, I mean if you were just sitting in a room, could the room you were in get lost?

I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back—you. He

The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.

All who wander are not lost!

Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him

Anywhere But Here,

It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Nous nous sommes dévoilés.

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

Perhaps they're opening up a world I'm only just starting to see the edges of. An adult world. It's scary and I don't like it.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

I don't know a thing yet, and I haven't lived. I'm starting to now, aren't I? No, you're asleep, you're always asleep.

you stepped outside time to find me. But you are the inventor of time and you will go back.

somewhere you know but never quite remember

but I know I never really arrive.

I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.

Does she come to them sooner, for all their rage to find her?

Have you forgotten yourself enough to come with me?

I want to move to the new country right now.