Quotes About Discovery

Some people wore their difference honestly, but my parents were liars, illegitimate Waitsfielders, their off-whiteness discovered only after the paint had dried. By the time I was born, the house had faded to the color of dirty snow.

It is one thing to suspect yourself of going mad; it is another thing entirely to discover your suspicions are correct.

Every maze has a monster at its heart.

Quand vas-tu enfin cesser de me causer des peurs pareilles ? Avant de te connaître, j'ignorais jusqu'au simple sens de ce mot.

If you don't push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there's more to life than the one you're living?

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one's hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

The problem is that most people are average. This includes people who run universities, publishing companies, and the rewards system in the arts. Most people look at something that is not familiar and think it is wrong. Very few people are able to look at an authentic discovery and be grateful. For that context to exist there has to be a true avant-garde, a large, vibrant community of people willing to think, fuck, love, live, and create oppositionally.

It's kind of like you go [forward], and it's still about you, but the picture keeps getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

That's when it hit me. I scrambled to his side of the bed in haste, silently opened the bedside drawer and located the box of matches he had used to light the candle.

She watched Trey nod his head to her question before asking, "Would you like to see what I retrieved from my bag? I promise you'll love it and beg for more.

I believe that within every one of us is a woman of undiscovered beauty, a woman who is charming and talented and light of heart

Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

When I see her,' I said, 'it's like - I don't know what it's like. It's like I never saw anything at all before.

Only when the little charade was nearly complete did Frances understand what it was all about. The spot at which Lilian had been grasping lay just above her heart. She had been drawing an imaginary stake from it.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Search for deep treasure as you go through this day. You will find Me all along the way.

Try to see things more and more from My perspective. Let the Light of My Presence so fully fill your mind that you view the world through Me. When little things don't go as you had hoped, look to Me lightheartedly and say, "Oh, well." This simple discipline can protect you from being burdened with an accumulation of petty cares and frustrations. If you practice this diligently, you will make a life-changing discovery:

Instead of striving for a predictable, safe lifestyle, seek to know Me in greater depth and breadth. I want to make your life a glorious adventure, but you must stop clinging to old ways.

Search for Me as for hidden treasure. I will be found by you.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.

Sometimes it's not good for people to find out who you really are.

We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!