Quotes About Exploration

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

I remember very clearly, at a time of enormous stress in my life, reading Alice in Wonderland. Alice became a heroine for me because she fell into this hole and she just free-fell. She didn't grab for the edges, she wasn't terrified, trying to stop her fall; she just fell and she looked at things as she went down. Then, when she landed, she was in a new place. She didn't take refuge in anything.

Make the dharma personal, explore it wholeheartedly, and relax.

All too frequently we relate like timid birds who don't dare to leave the nest.

You breathe in so that you can really understand what the Buddha meant when he said that the first noble truth is that life is suffering. What does that mean? With every in-breath, you try to find out by acknowledging the truth of suffering, not as a mistake you made, not as a punishment, but as part of the human condition. With every in-breath, you explore the discomfort of the human condition, which can be acknowledged and celebrated and not run away from. Tonglen

El camino espiritual implica ir más allá de la esperanza y del miedo, entrar en territorio desconocido, avanzar continuamente.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

Embarking on a spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With whole hearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear. For all we know, when we get to the horizon, we are going to drop off the edge of the world. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Live your life as an experiment. Adopt an attitude of "I'm not sure what will help in this situation, but I'm going to experiment and try this." Sometimes the result will be, "Wow, did that ever not work!" But if it is, we've learned something. And now we can try something else.

For all we know, when we get to the horizon, we are going to drop off the edge of the world. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.