Quotes about Discovery
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
— George Washington Carver
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
— Anne Lamott
I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.
— Steve Jobs
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
— Teresa of Avila
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
— Ayn Rand
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
— Leo Buscaglia
One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
— Etty Hillesum
If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself.
— Eugene Peterson
Writing to explore and discover what I didn't know. Writing as a way of entering into language and letting language enter me, words connecting with words and creating what had previously been inarticulate or unnoticed or hidden. Writing as a way of paying attention. Writing as an act of prayer.
— Eugene Peterson
I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
— Johannes Tauler