Discovery In Life Quotes

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery.

It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature;

it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self;

of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Two people have been living in you all your life.

One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life.

It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.

Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens.

I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade