#discovery

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #adventures-in-love #discovery #experiences #first-love

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else. ↗

— John Gribbin

#discovery #life #particles #quantum-mechanics #quantum-physics

Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will not necessarily be more damaged than a Survivor who has been touched. The degree of damage depend on the degree of traumatic sexualization, stigmatization, betrayal and powerlessness, the child has experienced. This in turn depends on a number of factors such as: * who the abuser was; * how many abusers were involved; * if the abuser was same-sex or opposite sex; * what took place; * what was said; * how long the abuse went on for; * How the child felt and how she interpreted what was happening; * if the child was otherwise happy and supported; * how other people reacted to the disclosure or discovery of the abuse; * how old the child was ↗

— Carolyn Ainscough

#betrayal #child-abuse #child-rape #damage #discovery

What happens this weekend stays between us. We set the rules. ↗

— Jayson James

#self-discovery #friendship

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#discovery #travel #imagination

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery. ↗

— George MacDonald

#facts #imagination #imagination

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#self-discovery #life

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. ↗

— Bob Moawad

#self-discovery #life

It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! ↗

— Robert T. Kiosaki

#self-confidence #self-discovery #self-esteem #self-improvement #life

We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#mclean-sweet #sarah-dessen #self-discovery #what-happened-to-goodbye #life