#very

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. Columbus and America. Pinzón who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry when I was least expecting her." I smiled back at him while feeling sharply just how much I was going to miss him. It was almost a physical pain. "I'm on that list?" "You're at the top of that list." He leaned over and kissed me and I kissed back. ↗

— Morgan Matson

#discovery

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#discovery

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#self-awareness #self-discovery #discovery

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#discovery

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#discovery

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#discovery

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#discovery

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#growth #resolution #bravery

A man without fear, is a man I strive to be. ↗

— Geoffrey Brokos

#bravery

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time! ↗

— Kelly Epperson

#crazy #fear #scared #bravery