Quotes About Exploration

As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

Go and live the lives you've imagined.

You don't get rich from doing physics, but you do get an opportunity to go to all the places the rich would go to if they had the time.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Away, away, from men and towns,To the wild wood and the downs.

No more alone through the world's wilderness, Although I trod the paths of high intent, I journeyed now: no more companionless

de curiosos están los camposantos llenos

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." —FRANK HOWARD CLARK

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.

I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who'd learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil drums over a turf fire into something that tasted like the finest malt. Noel acted as interpreter, as the old man spoke no English. Perhaps he'll have another adventure in store for me this time.

Immediately across the road is a ruined abbey and cemetery. As I haven't visited one since late yesterday afternoon, I decide to take a look. On the whole, it's fair to say that, if you're travelling round the west of Ireland, an interest in ruined abbeys, however slight, will stand you in better stead than a passion for rollerblading, say or a penchant for showbiz gossip.

I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.

words of existential psychotherapist Irwin Yalom: To be human is to be lonely. To become a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness. When we are willing to accept loneliness as a normal, recurring experience of life, we can learn to integrate it more graciously. We do not have to make loneliness or any other "negative" emotion more painful by adding shame, self-abandonment, or self-loathing to it.

Ambivalating is one of the healing processes of psychotherapy. When clients are encouraged to thoroughly explore their conflicting feelings about job or relationship issues, they eventually connect with a deep intuitive sense about what is best for them.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.

I sometimes recommend that readers view the table of contents and start with whatever headings most strike a chord. Although the book is laid out in a somewhat linear fashion, everyone's journey of recovering is different, and journeys can be initiated in a variety of ways.

Skilled therapists and caregivers learn to discriminate between active and passive suicidal ideation, and do not panic and catastrophize when encountering the latter. Instead, the counselor invites the survivor to explore his suicidal thoughts and feelings knowing that in most cases, verbal ventilation of the flashback pain underneath it will deconstruct the suicidality.