Quotes About Exploration

Everyone has a story. It's simply a question of finding it.

Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.

I'm always doing things I can't do. Otherwise, I'd never get to do them.

I'm not crazy; I'm curious.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so.

Jocelyn and I have done everything together since fourth grade: hopscotch, jump rope, charm bracelets, buried treasure, Harriet the Spying, blood sisters, crank calls, pot, coke, quaaludes.

She says, My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head. It leads wherever you want it to go, she says.

Why study authenticity if not to seek it? Try to ring some last truth from that word before it's so leeched of meaning that becomes a word casing, a shell without a bullet. A term that can be used only inside quotation marks.

Market Street, a steamy puddle at every curb. We find our way down alleys, our crazy eyes making diamonds of the shattered glass that covers the streets and sidewalks. Nothing touches us. We float under the orange streetlamps.

Technology has afforded ordinary people a chance to glow in the cosmos of human achievement.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious;

I wanted to send a young Charlotte into the world to live a different life from mine.

I rang the bell. When it was clear that no one was home, I opened the door and went in.

By now it was afternoon. Ted began to walk, still dazed, until he found himself among a skein of backstreets so narrow they felt dark. He passed churches blistered with grime, moldering palazzi whose squalid interiors leaked sounds of wailing cats and children. Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time." (p. 212)

Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?

if you're not failing, you're not actually being particularly experimental).

However, if you're navigating the tension between your Bible and your life, or Jesus' ancient ideas and the modern wayward church, or God's kingdom on earth and reality, then welcome. Sometimes it's better to wade through murky waters with a fellow explorer than with an authority. Questions can still be investigated with another learner instead of with one who has only answers.

I'm a jellyfish glowing in the dark sea, bright and brilliant, just waiting to be discovered.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.