#discovery

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

My parents say you’re no good, Elijah.” I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass. Laughing, Eli’s eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. “Really? And what do you say?” He had brought his lips so close to mine that it became hard to think about my next words when all I wanted to do was crush my mouth to his. I wanted him to completely consume me. “I think you’re broken,” I finally got out, and Eli arched a brow. “But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#death #discovery #falling-in-love #finding-yourself #growing-up

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real. ↗

— Richard Rhodes

#discovery #inspiration #science #inspirational

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

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

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

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

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb