#discover

Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#religion #wonder #dreams

Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #imagination

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#spiritual

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#discovery #fiction #mystery #overdetermination #perfection

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#fate #self-discovery #understanding #destiny

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#analysis #discoveries #greatness #intellect #intellectual-thought

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#earth #illusion #illusion

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#brilliantly #difficult #discovered #easy #emotional

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. ↗

— George Lucas

#discovered #everybody #just #matter #moving