"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."
Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Categories: inner beauty soul spirit secret mystery discovery exploration self-discovery self-awareness growth

... be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Ranier Maria Rilke Simple Abundance
Categories: mystery discovery self-discovery self-awareness growth self-improvement learning experiencing questions control issues future acceptance faith

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
Categories: discovery

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Categories: discovery

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Categories: mistakes discovery experimentation

Live passionately. Appreciate what you have. Get off the beaten path. Don't smell just the roses, smell everything you can and leave your mark along the way. Slobber as you please. As Socrates' dog once said, the unexuberant life is not worth living.
Rocky, Stephen Wilson's dog "Heart defect won't dampen his attitude" by Rocky, Arizona Republic, 12/24/99
Categories: passion attitude joy discovery gratitude

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: life past discovery progress

Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Categories: rut routine exploration discovery growth

We go on a journey in our youth that we are called on to repeat in our forties. But the second time, the journey is different; it's not one of discovery but of power and danger. We can either accept the invitation or turn toward safety.
John Tarrant "How will you fail?" by Harriet Rubin, Fast Company, October 1999
Categories: courage discovery self-awareness middle age mid-life

Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes
Georgia O'Keeffe The Artist's Way
Categories: vision nature beauty discovery friendship

I am a part of all I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world whose margins fades
For ever and ever when I move.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Compact Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: experience growth change exploration discovery

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: curiosity discovery invention creativity mystery reality

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide Simple Abundance
Categories: growth change transitions maturation self-improvement discovery

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: discovery knowledge ability talent creativity skill

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: understanding wisdom learning discovery beauty philosophy

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.
Diane Ackerman Deep Play
Categories: play creativity experimentation leisure relaxation exploration discovery

A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: nature work opportunity envy anger evil discovery god

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pessimism optimism attitude discovery vision imagination spirituality

A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.
Hal Borland The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: frontier discovery creation creativity time growth change

Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: curiosity art nature ideas discovery observation learning knowledge

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Simple Abundance
Categories: meditation growth self-discovery self-awareness self-acceptance journaling pain struggles

One should never count the years--one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I am glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Helen Keller Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging senior citizens elders elderly growth interests curiosity discovery

Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe The Artist's Way
Categories: vision nature beauty discovery friendship relationships busyness time patience

When we can't access our inner resources, we come to the flawed conclusion that happiness and fulfillment come only from external events. That's because external events usually bring with them some sort of change. And so we've learned to rely on circumstances outside ourselves for forward or backward momentum as we hurtle through life. But we don't have to do that any longer. We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: change self-improvement growth self-discovery self-awareness happiness emotion mood fulfillment meaning purpose

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: worry stress anxiety greed want poverty discovery soul happiness joy change self-improvement habits

The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: authenticity truth honesty integrity character personality self-esteem self-awareness self-discovery self-confidence joy happiness gifts talents skills ability soul spirituality love

...the sources of the truest truths are inevitably profoundly personal.
Saul Bellow The Closing of the American Mind
Categories: truth true insight spirituality growth self-knowledge self-awareness honesty transformation change self-improvement life change meditation prayer self-discovery