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Quotes About Exploration

there is no substitute for walking in the landscape itself, or turning over dusty old pages in the archives of San Antonio.
~ Paulette Jiles
Curative Waters wagon he threw his shotgun, purchases of tinned butter and dried beef, bacon, two sheepskins, a small box
~ Paulette Jiles
so he proceeded with great caution into an alien landscape of the mind and the mind's eye.
~ Paulette Jiles
He knew that he did not play music so much as walk into it, as if into a palace of great riches, with rooms opening into other rooms, which opened into still other rooms, and in these rooms were courtyards and fountains with passageways to yet more mysterious spaces of melody, peculiar intervals, unheard notes.
~ Paulette Jiles
Life is a journey not a destination, so journey it!
~ Unknown
She could not help thinking that the expression "open oneself to someone," which meant to give oneself, for her had only one meaning, a literal, physical, and in fact absolute meaning, for she was in fact opening every part of her body which was capable of being opened. It also seemed to her that this was her raison d'être
~ Pauline Réage
Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?" Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already". "Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?" "I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?
~ Paullina Simons
Attraversa la strada. Seguila. E darà un senso alla tua esistenza.
~ Paullina Simons
The park looks different at night," she remarked. "You've never been here at night?" "No," she admitted, quickly adding, "but I've been out at night in other places. Once I—" Alexander leaned in to her. "Tania, you want to know something?" "What?" she said, leaning away. "The less you've been out at night, the better I like it.
~ Paullina Simons
On the other hand, you know that it's possible to do more. You cannot accept being immobilized because you think that you've finished. You experience the very nature of being a human being-that is, unfinished, constantly in search.
~ Paulo Freire
existe um planeta perdido numa dobra do sistema solar
~ Unknown
por mais que eu ande nada em mim imagina o que é que menina tão pequena está fazendo numa cidade tão grande
~ Unknown
The moonlight will guide me to the world of freedom.
~ Unknown
Ca te plaît de ne pas te connaître vraiment ? (Amu) — Oui, parce que ne pas savoir… C'est avoir la liberté d'essayer tout ce dont on a envie. (Kûkai)
~ Unknown
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
~ Pearl Bailey
All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Science is closer to poetry than it is to our vital lives.50
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown
Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.
~ Peg Bracken
Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.
~ Peggy Orenstein
When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.
~ Unknown
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
~ Penelope Leach
I have no idea where I am going, she thought, but I have begun.
~ Penelope Lively
She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.
~ Penelope Lively