Quotes About Exploration

Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits.

Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.

How the path was forged

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven't yet found the ship, nor have you loaded your bags, nor crossed the sea. Why spend time commenting on what it is like, or how one should walk through its streets?

If what one finds is made of pure matter,it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

I need the words to find the music!

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith

I am entirely happy except that I feel the need of more knowledge of some sort. What sort I do not know myself." "Perhaps it is not so much knowledge as more understanding of that which you already know

island of Komudo

she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.

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To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea.

I need this wild life, this freedom. To be alive, to look into nature, and so into my soul.

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

Live your life as an experiment.

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

And that can never be a mistake--to fly instead of staying in the nest with all the poop and everything that's in there.

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.

It starts with catching ourselves when we spin off in the same old ways. Usually we feel that there's a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.