Quotes About Discovery

One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

Is this part of the geography project? Are you wandering the riverbed or just each other?

There's more to you than meets the eye

Here's what I think: I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And, if not, maybe they can mean something to us. At the very least, by the time we leave, we know we will have seen it. So come on. Let's go. Let's count for something.

Maybe. Or maybe it's a whole other world, one we can't even imagine.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me.

You make your own path.

He taught me to wander. He taught me that you don't have to climb a mountain to stand on top of the world.

Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting.

Tersesat bukan masalah, asal kau menemukan jalan pulang. Tapi dalam mempelajari semua itu aku melewatkan sesuatu yang lebih penting. Melihat Finch.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciated them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us. At the very least, by the time we leave, we know we will have seen it, this great state of ours. So come on. Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.

When it's my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. "The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is life," I add, even though no one knows what this means

Also, I figure while I'm here, I might as well get to know it, you know—see what there is to see.

I feel like I just walked through the back of the wardrobe and into Narnia.

Drive anywhere and everywhere, even when there's nowhere to go. (Note: There's always somewhere to go.)

By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet— there is such a thing as a perfect day.

If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just places.

Germ—Ask a Parent, book playlists, monthly soundtracks, lists of places where girls like me can get involved. One of the things I want to create is a Wander section where readers can send in pictures or videos of their favorite grand, small, bizarre, poetic, nothing-ordinary sites.

We're swaying a little to the music, and I'm looking into his eyes and thinking how amazing it is that you can live for eighteen years without knowing someone, and then they can come along and, like that, know you better than anyone. And you can't imagine what you ever did before they knew you and saw you and heard you and talked to you about all the things they've been through and all the things that matter to them.