Quotes About Exploration

Mind your way forward and find your way back

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play The Blue Bird, where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home.

Boredom can be important. That's when you have to figure out what you want to do.

Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive.

when we visit a new place or try a new activity—time seems to slow down, experiences seem more vivid, and our emotional responses are more intense. That's why a week on vacation seems longer and more memorable than a month at home.

Surprise stimulates the brain, and research shows that people who do new things and visit new places—even something as modest as a trip to a new restaurant—tend to be happier.

when encouraging Questioners to take action, it can be useful to remind them, Just try it. It's an experiment.

For instance, in The Artist's Way, her influential book about cultivating creativity, Julia Cameron suggests scheduling an "artist's date

It's always reading that makes me want to experience things.)

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our own making, a place of safety, exploration, comfort, and love.

It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

Almost daily I return to the high country. Mountain is shoulder: I rub against it and step forward. The hinge squeals, an arm lifts, a rock wall slides, and for a moment the mountain's inner sanctum is revealed.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life?

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.

C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the details or follow the outlines of the adventures. You merge with the character; you think you're the one whose heart is beating so hard within the clothes he's wearing.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.

I am the obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face.