Quotes About Exploration

Cherish your wilderness.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

What does myself now say to me? Open the door of Mystery.

Must not a poet hunt the unicorn through bush and bramble, through snow and fire, over desert and mountain, through thickets and over long barren roads even though he suspects sometimes that the unicorn does not exist- or exists only in his imagination?

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn't satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path.

That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

You find the path by walking it.

I left Sonny and walked around, rustling myself in the sounds and feasting my eyes on the tasty colors of my people.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

Si siempre intentas ser normal, nunca descubrirás lo extraordinario que puedes llegar a ser.

I've sailed upon the seven seas and stopped in every land, I've seen the wonders of the world, not yet one common man.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

I've never even been to Long Island

Are you a pirate?

We need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.

You're in Europe. You're young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

They pulled off a twisting country road and bumped along a rutted gravel driveway. Rocky promontories barred their view until they topped a rise and found a half-are property where the cabin faced south, toward the red clay river that lazed across the horizon.