Quotes About Discovery

Böyle mi oluyordu? A??k oluyordunuz ve art?k hiçbir ?ey korkutucu gelmiyor, hayat gözünüze koca bir olas?l?k gibi mi görünüyordu?

Let's not force it. We'll know it when we hear it, I think.

I didn't realize anything was missing. Then came you.

we're about to get to know each other very well.

whatever else I need, I'll get when I'm there. That's the whole point of an adventure. Pack light and figure the rest out as you go.

Sure, you could go to the bakery and pick out the exact cake you want, but there is a thrill in not being sure what you'll end up with.

We spend the rest of the trip surfing radio stations.

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discover leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.

UNC is a choice I didn't even know I had, like a door that magically appeared, a door that could lead anywhere.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

maybe it's good to exist in a place of unsureness for a while.

WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW, YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.

maybe it's not about having a plan, or even a plan B. Maybe it's about seeing where life takes you and learning to enjoy the ride.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

found a book called Thriving Not Surviving in a box on the street. I stood there, flipping through it, unwilling to commit.

The wife sits in the backyard with binoculars. She is trying to learn about the birds. She has seen robins and sparrows and wrens. A green-throated hummingbird. She wants to know the name of the black bird with the red wings. She looks it up. It is a red-winged blackbird.

No set line between lost and not lost.

Aboard the Belgica, off Antarctica, May 20, 1898: Explorer Frederick Cook

Q: How did we end up here? A: We can, if need be, ransack the whole globe, penetrate into the bowels of the earth, descend to the bottom of the deep, travel to the farthest regions of this world, to acquire wealth, to increase our knowledge, or even only to please our eye and fancy. (William Derham, 1711)

Ben se ha quedado despierto hasta muy tarde afilando los lápices que ha encontrado debajo del sofá. Ha guardado los más bonitos para mí. Me gusta llevarlos en la mochila. Sobre todo, este lápiz rojo que creía que ya no iba a volver.

I closed my eyes and listened to it. Who is this person? I wondered.

It seemed possible that we'd traveled across the world in error.

Now at this point you are probably thinking: so what? There is no Ebola in the world at the moment. Oh yes there is, but despite a twenty-year, multi-million-dollar hunt nobody has been able to find where it lives. Some say the host is a bat, others say it's a spider or a space alien. All we know is that occasionally, and for no obvious reason, someone comes out of the jungle with bleeding eyes and his stomach in a bag.

Three chums would find themselves at a loose end for whatever reason and would agree to travel together to foreign lands for the purposes of cultural and spiritual enrichment.