Quotes about Discovery
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
— Jonah Hill
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
— Henry David Thoreau
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
— Melody Carlson
Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into "something" much bigger and deeper that is literally beyond us and larger than us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God can most easily be lost by being thought found.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Each generation has to appropriate its deepest beliefs for itself. We used to say it this way: "God has no grandchildren." Each generation must itself be realigned with God and discover the mystery for itself.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It seems that in the spiritual world, we do not really find something until we first lose it, ignore it, miss it, long for it, choose it, and personally find it again--but now on a new level.
— Fr. Richard Rohr