#discovery

Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right. ↗

— David Levithan

#self-discovery

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment. ↗

— Brian Krans

#solace #writing #self-discovery

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

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love-yourself #truth-in-you #uniqueness-of-individual #love

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been ↗

— Criss Jami

#cliche #discovery #great-men #greatness #journey

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-true-to-yourself #honesty #inspiring-quotes #quotes-on-being-true-to-yourself #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves? ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#discovery #beauty

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#chain #darkness #discovery #drops #every

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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