Quotes About Discovery

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would nowhere else to go

Through trial with death, you discover your power. Through trial, you shed your mortal flesh, layer after layer, until you become who you are supposed to be.

And later, I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control. i found out the most I could have was hope, and with that I was not denying any possibility, good or bad.

I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

I remember the day when I finally knew a genuine thought and could follow where it went.

I felt as if I were running in a labyrinth, chasing after something I could not see yet knew was important. I sensed it was just ahead, and then it would go around a corner, and I would be lost. I would have to decide what to do next, where to go, and what I needed to get out of that confusing place. If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would be nowhere else to go.

Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and held it against my chest. This was who he was. But it also was not. It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit. No one could possess it.

Nadie, ni yo ni nadie, puede andar este camino por ti. Habrás de recorrerlo tú solo. No está lejos; lo tienes a tu alcance. Tal vez estás en él desde que naciste, sin saberlo. Tal vez está en todas partes: en el mar y en la tierra.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Things I forgot to tell you: That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence to discover more ways of appreciating you. That when June comes back she will love you more because I have loved you. There are new leaves on the tip and climax of your already overrich head. That I love you. That I love you. That I love you. I have become an idiot like Gertrude Stein. That's what love does to intelligent women. They cannot write letters anymore.

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

I can't let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys and sorrows, I acquired one of the most precious sources of strength of all: an understanding of human beings, insight into their motivations.

The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

His room was like an explorer's den, a lair of furs, the cave of a magician.

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

The unknown is my compass

Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.

the discovery of each other brings a kind of peace, because it brings the certitude that we are right. We are stronger together ... we will have less doubts. This seemed deeply true, yet I wonder if it is good to ally similarities, one agreeing with the other, as twins might, so that this might give an illusion of balance, reassure us about our orientation, or whether we should seek this by contrast with others

Viaggiamo per cercare altri luoghi, altre vite,m altre anime.

Quiero llevar a cabo mis propios descubrimientos. No necesito drogas ni estimulantes artificiales. Sin embargo quiero experimentar esas mismas cosas con June, penetrar en la maldad que me atrae. Busco la vida, y las experiencias que deseo; se me niegan porque tengo en mí una fuerza que las neutraliza. Conozco a June, la seudoprostituta, y se vuelve pura.