Quotes About Discovery

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.