Quotes About Discovery

I WAKE CLOSE TO MORNING Why do people keep asking to see God's identity papers when the darkness opening into morning is more than enough? Certainly any god might turn away in disgust. Think of Sheba approaching the kingdom of Solomon. Do you think she had to ask, "Is this the place?

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

If this was lost, let us all be lost always.

I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

I went to China, I went to Prague; I died, and was born in the spring; I found you, and loved you, again.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

I quickly found for myself two such blessings - the natural world, and the world of literature. These were the gates through which I vanished from a difficult place.

to go on, which was: to go back.

Every day I'm still looking for God and I'm still finding him everywhere, in the dust, in the flowerbeds. Certainly in the oceans, in the islands that lay in the distance continents of ice, countries of sand each with its own set of creatures and God, by whatever name. How perfect to be aboard a ship with maybe a hundred years still in my pocket. But it's late, for all of us, and in truth the only ship there is is the ship we are all on burning the world as we go.

In the beginning, I was so young and such a stranger to myself, I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it, hear it, and react to it before I knew it all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

Finally I was advertised on the hotline of help, and yet there I was, slopping along happily in the stream's coolness. So maybe it was the right way after all. If this was lost, let us all be lost always.

His heart nearly stopped. A ship was outlined against the sky! Behind it, he saw two smaller ships. As the ships came into view, their bright sails were filled with wind and their serpent prows blazed in the new sunlight.

Come with me." Roberto

Annie!" Jack yelled. He hurried down to her. "Annie!" When Annie and Roberto turned and saw Jack, they waved happily. "Oh, Jack

mysterious tree house appeared in the woods.

Mary Pope Osborne

Reading is the passport to countless adventures

Leonardo da Vinci: And now my friends I know the secret. Jack: You do? Leonardo da Vinci: Yes, the secret to happiness is available to all of us, every hour of every day. Young, old, rich, poor — everyone can choose to find happiness in this way. Annie: How? What's the secret? Leonardo da Vinci: Curiosity

Come on, let's go watch!" Annie said. She started down the rope ladder.

When Jack looked up, he saw the woman had pulled off her wig. It was a boy dressed up as a woman! "See, even she's a boy," said Annie. "That's weird.

Annie and Jack waved good-bye to the old man.

Jack and Annie stepped out of the chariot. Jack's legs were so wobbly he could hardly walk.

Jack put the card with the glowing letters ML on it into his backpack. "I'm ready," he said.