Quotes About Discovery

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every encounter was an encounter with myself.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

The Christian life is anything but boring.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

I believe the term you're searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I've discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life

Life is adventure. Travel is adventure at a different address.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.