Quotes About Discovery

Watch with glittering eyes the world around you. [...] Those who do not believe in magic will never find it.

I would love to to go somewhere else and pick peachy fruits in the early morning from the back of an elefunt.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.

The Giant ran on and on. But now a curious change took place in his way of running.

Back in the cave

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started!

The books transported her into the world and introduced her to amazing people who lived...

My name is Sophie

CHAPTER ONE

Si uno se detenía a curiosear a través del cristal, podía ver las paredes forradas de arriba abajo con libros y, si abría la puerta y entraba, inmediatamente lo envolvía el hedor a cartón viejo y hojas de té que impregna el interior de toda librería de lance de Londres.

Casi siempre había dos o tres clientes, figuras sombrías ataviadas con abrigo y sombrero Trilby, que hurgaban en silencio entre colecciones de Jane Austen y Trollope, Dickens y George Elliot, con la esperanza de dar con una primera edición.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?

Spirit often exposes the assumptions we've been living with that we haven't been aware of.

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.

When so much gets left behind, you discover that you're fine. You've got a little fear, like a fly buzzing around your head, but you're fine. You're also free. What a gift.

The one thing that unites the people I know who are on satisfying and meaningful paths is that they kept trying things, kept exploring, kept pursuing new opportunities, kept searching until they discovered their ikigai. And then from there they never stop figuring it out because they understand how absolutely crucial this is in creating a life worth living.

There's a good chance your ikigai will change over time. Relax, this is normal.

It's like I'm figuring it out, but as soon as I do, something shifts, and we get to figure it out all over again. I resist this endless figuring it all out, but over time, it starts to work a kind of magic on me.

I realize I've been living for years with the assumption that at some point you arrive. You get it all nailed down. You sort it all out. And then from there you get on with it.

You start with your 1, and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. No one does.