Quotes About Exploration

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.

Becca had gone through many, many years of schooling in her life. She'd spent more hours in libraries than she could begin to calculate. Yet this was the first time she'd ever made out in one. As he claimed her mouth for the second time against the volumes of Chaucer, she realized all she'd missed out on in the past.

Señora Catalina, ¿adónde se camina?».

Okay, welcome to Creepy Territory. Here's your map.

I went down and down,' he remembered, 'until the wingtips of angels brushed my eyes.

it with the eye of an interior decorator, and there were possibilities everywhere she looked. She moved

There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of immersion into different cultures comes naturally to science fiction, since a major theme of the genre is how humans interact with 'alien' cultures. Yet many of the so-called alien cultures of science fiction, particularly in its younger days, felt myopic, more like Western cultures even than other cultures on our own planet.

I drove into the woods and there it was, shining like the human mind.

arms wide and said, 'That's a question

Okla ete ablotse. 'My spirit has traveled abroad even if my body has not.

Who can chart the vastness of Incarceron? Its halls viaducts, its chasms? Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Creativity took precedence over accepted beliefs, and going out on a limb seemed invariably more attractive than security.

I was in a forest with no path, but people wanted me to know the way.

The adventurous part of me was looking forward to getting out into the world, meeting new people, trying new things. But another part of me was thinking that it was just too soon. Why couldn't everything stay the same for a little while longer?

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

Look at education as a continuous life long journey.

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!

Retirement, a time to enjoy life! A time to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, how you want to do it.

Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here. It was worth it just for Natalie to see the windmills. Even if she never saw anything like this again. Maybe at least she could hang on to the idea that there's something better out there, somewhere.

And then you notice the days are going by really fast. And they're all starting to look alike. And then you start to feel like this can't be it. This can't be all. This can't be . . . you know . . . a whole life. There has to be more.

They're right next door." "We can still hike out down the Angels Landing

Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.

curiosity has its glue-like qualities.

I'm just floating along in this state of elation because all of life's normal responsibilities and irritations are gone. It's like a sheet of blue-lined paper, the kind you write on at school, but with the lines suddenly missing. No structure. Nothing is predictable. Everything that might happen now is new.