Quotes about Discovery
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
- Alice Hoffman
You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.
- Alice Hoffman
She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.
- Alice Hoffman
My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.
- Alice Hoffman
She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.
- Alice Hoffman
this occurred only once in a person's life, and then only if he was lucky. It happened the way things happen in a dream. A door opens, a person calls your name, your heart beats faster, and everything is familiar, yet you don't know where you are. You are falling, you're in a house you don't recognize and yet you want to be here, you have actually wanted to be here all of your life
- Alice Hoffman
She did believe in one thing, something so vast and deep she couldn't bring herself to tell John, even though it was probably safe to confide in someone she would never see again. She believed that people could lose themselves.
- Alice Hoffman
Close your eyes and listen, such people advised, then walk twenty paces farther than you thought necessary. Just when you're certain you've lost your way completely, you'll be there. Open your eyes.
- Alice Hoffman
Without courage, you will never find the answer
- Alice Hoffman
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.
- Alice Walker
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble
- Alice Walker
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.
- Alice Walker