Quotes About Exploration

You cross a border because you are searching, because you want more, because you want to match where you are with who you are, because you want to test your place. Maybe because you want to expand your sense of place. You are searching for something that may as yet be indefinable. A border crosser questions the very idea of home.

We can't be fully transformed in our own backyard. We need to journey.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth.   Not going all the way, and not starting."   Siddhrtha Gautama

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

10 PLACES TO NEVER, EVER, EVER GO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Rooms lit by a single hanging light bulb. Rooms lit by nothing. Any graveyard that isn't Arlington National Cemetery. Summer camps whose annual counselor murder rate exceeds 10 percent. Maine. "The old_____________." Hotels/motels that aren't part of giant international chains. Upstairs. Downstairs. Any log cabin anywhere on the face of the earth.

I'd heard it said that "when a man is tired of moving, he moves to New York, and the movement comes to him.

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives.

Doing the same thing each day, day in and day out, doesn't work. ?Being bored, doesn't work. ?Never reading a book, doesn't work. ?Never reading a book outside of your personal interests, doesn't work.

Every time feet move in search of dance; lips find smiles a million galaxies wide

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere "positive thinking." It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

It is important to approach Maths only in a spirit of curiosity and discovery...

The trees part before her slender form and close in again behind me. The roads weave a vast labyrinth, and I am lost.

This one hopez you know what you are doing. Not really. But it's uncertainty that makes life so interesting don't you think Saba Jacen

John had lost his way, his Point B. He needed new strategies for getting to his old goals, or he needed a new Point B. The next

I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.

Raven heard a crunch. "Maddie!" said Raven. "You're not supposed to eat the stone." "Why not?" said Maddie. "It's delightfully crunchy." "How do you even do that?" Raven asked. "I mean, it's a rock." Maddie shrugged. "Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet. I probably couldn't do it again, though.

Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet. I probably couldn't do it again, though.

Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.