#discover

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right. ↗

— David Levithan

#luck

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. ↗

— William Edgar Stafford

#poetry #thinking #writing #writing-process

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #self-discovery #wisdom #experience

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, "There's got to be something more. Go find it. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#non-fiction-books-inspirational #spiritual-journey #spiritual-life #spirituality #inspirational

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#discoveries #experience #foreign-countries #life #life-changing

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find. ↗

— E.L. Konigsburg

#self-discovery #self-discovery

A wise man travels to discover himself. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#travel #self-discovery

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. ↗

— Bert Williams

#america #anything #been #being #colored

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries? ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspiration #motivation #self-acceptance #inspirational

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#instinct #knowledge #search #seekers #self-awareness