Quotes About Exploration

Life is meant to be experienced. Put yourself out there. Do things youve never done. Live a life where at the end, you will have no regrets.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

Try something new. Chances are you'll enjoy it more than you think.

A single step of daring can alter whole conception of life, a life full of challenge and adventure.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

I was looking for something, I realized, though I could not say what.

But I barely noticed these things. I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

The islands looked all the same to me--high cliffs bleached white, pebbled beaches that scratched the underside of our ships with their chalky fingernails.

He asked only for curiosity's sake, because it was his nature to seek out answers, to press others for their weaknesses.

I touched the thought like a cruise, testing for its ache.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I've been things and seen places.

My scents for change are (and there's a lot of them, because there's a lot going on for me at the moment!): Pour Homme by Yamamoto On the Road by Timothy Han Santal Blanc by Serge Lutens Oud Wood by Tom Ford Dear Polly by Vilhelm La Flâneuse by Lucien Lechêne PM by the Great Eastern Fragrance Company Je t'aime Jane by Bella Freud No. 9 Benjoin by Prada Shalimar by Guerlain Original by Eight & Bob

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

or stays up all night watching colored shadows drift across the walls? At times I have done all of these things, but not in service of science, nor of philosophy, not even of poetry.

The Oblivion Seekers

I swam in dangerous waters, both metaphorically and literally. It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer.