Quotes About Exploration

Now when she spied on women and men she crept close and closer, closer than was safe, because she was drawn to the curve of a lip, the gleam of sweat on a throat, and she longed to feel the weigh of glossy hair on her skin.

She touched the pool and fell the echo of that faraway lake, the promise of all that was wide and bright and clear that she would one one day find.

She fell into a waking dream and on clear nights walked for miles on the world and in the woods.

I wandered, paying no particular attention, just absorbing the city through the soles of my shoes and the taste on my tongue.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

While she watched, she let her own feet find their way; she knew every root, every rut and hare scrape, every fallen bough in this glade.

Port Central had become a sophisticated prison for its inmates, while the natives roamed a whole world.

Ich wandle in der Finsternis. Doch mich leitet der Duft des Ginsters.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

Quando ci si smarrisce, i progetti lasciano il posto alle sorprese, ed è allora, ma solamente allora, che il viaggio comincia.

Un voyage se passe de motifs. Il ne tarde pas à prouver qu'il se suffit à lui-même. On croit qu'on va faire un voyage, mais bientôt c'est le voyage qui vous fait, ou vous défait.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

Participate in fantasy. Be curious!

all adventures involving knowledge and imagination. When Marielle drives crosstown from east to west along Sherbrooke Street in her old Plymouth, aka 'Violet,' it is 'a carousel of history and geography,' it is about straddling grammar and going off to explore the inner recesses of the images and life irrigating the brain.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it's more interesting to be dangerous.

If there was one thing she knew by then, by age twenty-two, it was that she had to get far away and stay away. Here in his world she was trapped in an intolerable corner, which seemed to grow tighter and tighter each year. And now no place in America felt right.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

You're on a journey whether you want to be or not.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.