Quotes about Discovery

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right?

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.

I woke up from a deep sleep to find everybody sleeping like lambs and the car parked God knows where, because I couldn't see out the steamy windows. I got out of the car. We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite. It was time for me to drive on.

With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars...

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums