Discovering Quotes - Page 21

• He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Differences, Trying, Six

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Gay, Later In Life, Happened

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• Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• ...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

  Ira Glass

  Empathy, Joy, Stories

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• A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

  Ira Progoff

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  Ira Progoff (1992). “At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability”, Tarcher

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• There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

  Libba Bray

  Difficult, Discovering Who You Are, Who You Are

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• Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Evil, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Reading, Long

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• We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Reading, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Commitment, Ideas, Purpose

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.188, Penguin

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• Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Light, Imagination

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.178, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

  William Stafford

  Real, Caring, People

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  Henry James

  Girl, Determination, Thinking

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• Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, "I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Passion, Home, Battle

  "An Interview With Ben Stiller And Drew Barrymore". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is alive and has the power to transform us. By discovering these saints, readers will learn how to embody Scripture, letting it enlarge their hearts and mold their lives into the image of Christ.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Book, Heart, Men

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• Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Lysa TerKeurst (2009). “Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl”, p.194, Thomas Nelson

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• In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.

  Betsy Lerner

  Lying, Book, People

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Joy, Anticipation, Possibility

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• Love is scary, like anything else, whether you're falling in love, whether you're discovering love in something else...if you're really going to jump off the cliff, when you meet somebody that you love you're going to jump off that cliff, you've got to give them everything. And when you have a kid, it's on a much greater level.

  Kate Hudson

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

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• If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

  Prince Charles

  Ends, Chuck, Ifs

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• When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesn’t look like she’s begging for attention. She knows that she’s worth discovering. Such humility is radiant. Unfortunately, many women are so preoccupied with turning men’s heads that they overlook their power to turn our hearts.

  Jason Evert

  Heart, Humility, Men

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• It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

  Peter Brook

  Thinking, Long, Desire

  Peter Brook (2017). “Peter Brook: Threads Of Time: A Memoir”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Compassion, Creative

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• Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

  Jay Samit

  Opportunity, Journey, Important

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2016

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• I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

  Tom Baker

  Children, Home, Lice

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