Quotes About Discovery

Who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who Knows its depth?

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.

But that (My brother's first science fair) project changed my life.

Mysticism is the conviction, born of personal experience, that there is a divine core in human personality which each of us can realize directly, and that making this discovery is the real goal of our lives.

Some of you may be struggling with discovering your vocation and feeling a little frustrated that your intuition is not helping you more. Alas, intuition can also stand in your way because it makes you aware of too many inner voices speaking for too many different possibilities.

About sixty thousand subscribe to my free e-mail newsletter at hsperson.com, where there are now hundreds of articles and blog posts I have written over the years, all archived so that you can search and find something on almost every aspect of being highly sensitive. This is all because you have discovered that you are highly sensitive. I know that for many of you it has changed your life, so we have reason to celebrate this growth over twenty-five years.

Psychologists have asked me (and I'm sure more only thought but didn't ask), "How could you have discovered an entirely new trait?" The answer is that sensitivity is not new at all but just difficult to observe by watching how people behave, which is usually how psychology proceeds.

Following the thinking of Carl Jung, I see each life as an individuation process, one of discovering the particular question you were put on earth to answer.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?

Learning is Messy.

In the woods the bluebells seem Like a blue and magic dream, Blue water, light and air Flow among them there. But the eager girl who pulls Bluebells up in basketfuls When she gets them home will find The magic left behind.

there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon." "Find out what?" "That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.

One thing life taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. They will gravitate as automatically as the needle to the north. Somehow, it is unnecessary, in any cold-blooded sense, to sit down and put your head in your hands and plan them. All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Actually, an important part of self-knowledge is that it gives one a better realization of the inner strength that can be called upon, of which one may be quite unaware.