Quotes About Discovery

Leadership is not a power, it is an opportunity to discover the possibilities, overcome the limitations and a responsibility to make new leaders.

My mother was afraid of the books I wrote, afraid of what she would discover if she read them.

I used to think that age would bring wisdom. It doesn't, it just brings confusion. But I find that this confusion is artistically useful. It's a kind of progression, a negative progression. It's moving into areas that you didn't know were there. It becomes more dreamlike all the time.

At a desk, in front of a computer, my mind goes blank, but as soon as I take off (to the supermarket, to Australia), inspiration strikes. Journeys are the midwives of books. — ALAIN DE BOTTON

Thoreau said that there are two kinds of writing: one reports the event; the other is the event itself. This is another version of show-don't-tell. One is at arm's length; the other is right in your face, in your heart, in your senses. When you read the event itself, you forget that you're reading — you're experiencing it. And we write and we rewrite to discover how to do this with every story.

Go with your Strengths and Develop Your Passions to Discover your Purpose.

My father always said the first ten years of marriage were like a shakedown cruise. You couldn't fix the problems until you figured out where they were hiding.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.1 —Gautama Buddha

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. The suffering comes from our reluctance to learn to walk in the dark.

It was when your partner left you that you remembered what else you meant to do in your life beyond staying together.

I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself

It is a great thing to see something familiar from an unfamiliar angle for the first time, even if it is because you have been worried and lost for longer than you would have liked.

I have lived through parts of life that no one in her right mind would ever willingly have chosen, finding enough overlooked treasure in them to outweigh my projected wages in the life I had planned. These are just a few of the reasons that I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be." — Mary Anne Radmacher

TODAY I AM GOING TO SEE WHAT THERE IS TO SEE, TO FEEL WHAT THERE IS TO FEEL, AND TO KNOW WHAT THERE IS TO KNOW.

What I'm about—what I'm all about—is revealing something true. Something deep inside, that maybe you didn't even know existed. But that you need to share with the world.

Because life isn't static," he says. "It keeps changing. We think we know where we are, then something happens and we're somewhere else, and we have to find our way all over again.

Life through a child's eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.

Barbara Delinsky

Loving herself—respecting her own needs—was something important and new.

It´s like you get started in one direction and pick up speed, and you may forget where you´re going and why,but the momentum takes you there anyway. Only, you find out when you arrive that it isn´t where you wanted to be.

Doug's office was a Pandora's box that, once opened, gushed with condemning information. Emily was nearly as stunned by the ease of her access to it, as by its quantity. He hadn't camouflaged anything. It was all there for the taking. Apparently it hadn't occurred to the bastard that she would look.