Quotes About Exploration

Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here

Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar

A path is made by walking on it.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

The road is better than the end.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.

I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

Non c'è niente di più solitario dell'avventura.

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet backpack on wheels. When I first saw it, I thought maybe the dog was supposed to wear the backpack, but it turned out the person wore the backpack with the dog in it.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

à ceux dont l'âme a faim et soif de la lumière d'amour libératrice, je les invite à explorer certains travaux moins connus, tels que les manuscrits de la mer Morte et les manuscrits de Nag Hammadi. Ils y trouveront des traductions directes de discours du

Also, I think shutting down discussions in the way that's suggested here is actually potentially more dangerous. Someone who's really interested will just look on the internet. It's like porn. The stuff you stumble across is much worse.

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn't 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but 'Is this character alive?'

Birdwatching is also the perfect entry point to rekindle our innate bond with the natural world