Quotes About Exploration

She knew there was a big Chicago far off, where all the trains ran.

Traveling across Australia, Asia, and Africa, he searched for people with little contact with the West who he could examine. Porteus found that the so-called Bushmen of the Kalahari scored a mental age of seven. Yet his subjects were navigating their way through Porteus's printed mazes in the middle of a vast desert that they could navigate without a map, finding all the food and shelter they required.

Io, Bologna, non l'ho mai vista. Ma la conosco bene, anche se probabilmente è una città tutta mia. È una città grande: almeno tre ore.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his knowledge.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length-and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

Stories have no beginning and no end, only doors through which one may enter them.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

Não conhecia o prazer de ler, de explorar portas que se nos abrem na alma, de nos abandonarmos à imaginação, à beleza e ao mistério da ficção e da linguagem.

Hasta entonces para mí las lecturas eran una obligación, una especie de multa a pagar a maestros y tutores sin saber muy bien para qué. No conocía el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandonarse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.

I hope you find the path that I missed.

Mi balenò in mente il pensiero che dietro ogni copertina si celasse un universo da esplorare e che, fuori di lì, la gente sprecasse il tempo ascoltando partite di calcio e sceneggiati alla radio, paga della propria mediocrità.

I felt like running away and not stopping until there was no more world left to run from.

We still have a lot of history to live through, Daniel, and what awaits us is no longer child's play. Are you with me? To that end of the world, which, for all we know, might only be around the corner?

Cuanto más se le intenta ocultar algo a un niño, más empeño pone este en encontrarlo, ya sea un dulce o una postal de coristas descocadas dándoles vuelo a sus encantos.

Boquiabierto, avancé despacio hacia aquel castillo tramado con todos los libros jamás escritos.

No conocía el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandonarse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.