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Quotes About Discovery

She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Thule was sighted, but only from afar.
~ Siobhan Dowd
it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
but still we may as well learn all there is to be learned.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Deep seemed the valleys when we lay between the reeling seas.
~ Sir Ernest Shackleton
Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.
~ Sir John Templeton
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Readers are HAPPY people!
~ Sissy Marlyn
I was amazed at just how powerful it is to have something totally new, uncharted, and exciting to look forward to when your life falls apart.
~ Sonia Choquette
Un petit échantillon
~ Sonia Choquette
Even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!
~ Sophie Kinsella
But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I'm suddenly seeing the other side of me; the side I thought had disappeared forever. All this time, all my stuff was here. Suddenly I have a memory of Eric's words, that first time I asked him about Jon. 'You'd trust Jon with your life.' Maybe that's what I did. Trusted him with my life.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What I've learned since being out in the dating field is: A lot of men are really boring. Or else they're not boring, they're super-fun and exciting, but they have four other secret girlfriends they never mentioned....
~ Sophie Kinsella
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
~ Sophocles
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man
~ Sophocles
I stumbled on you, down the woody Hanks of Mount Cithaeron.
~ Sophocles
Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.
~ Sophocles
ÖDIPUS. Wie packt mich, da ich eben dich gehört hab, Frau, der Seele Irrlauf und Erschütterung des Geistes!
~ Sophocles
In relation to the labyrinth of her heart, every young girl is an Ariadne; she owns the thread by which one can find one's way through it, but she owns it without herself knowing how to use it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Play is where life lives
~ George A. Sheehan