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Quotes About Exploration

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
~ Willa Cather
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~ Dalai Lama
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
~ Nikolaus Lenau
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
~ Bryant McGill
Read at whim! Read at whim!
~ Randall Jarrell
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge
~ Edgar Allan Poe
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.
~ Jeffree Star
Break open the forbidden happiness.
~ Rob Brezsny
Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
~ Roger McDonald
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
~ Virginia Woolf
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
~ Twyla Tharp
So this is happiness, that journeyman.
~ Arthur Lynch
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
~ Samuel Johnson
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
~ Bertrand Russell
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
~ Anatole France
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
~ Charlton Ogburn
He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
~ Urania Sarri, Gate Deadlock
Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?
~ Marty Rubin
Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don't fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
~ Erik Pevernagie
There is a whole world out there waiting to have fun. Show them how it's done!
~ Gary Rudz
The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan