#discovery

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writing #dreams

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

— Jayson James

#self-discovery #friendship

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

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The delights of self-discovery are always available. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#self-discovery #love