Quotes about Exploration
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Start looking for joy and you'll find it.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.
- Oprah Winfrey
Mine is I've learned as much as I can learn doing this one thing. Now I need to move forward. And it happens when I've learned as much as I can learn at that thing. And then something else opens itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Books, for me, used to be a way to escape. I now consider reading a good book a sacred indulgence, a chance to be any place I choose. It is my absolute favorite way to spend time. What I know for sure is that reading opens you up.
- Oprah Winfrey
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
- Oprah Winfrey
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
- Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde
roads were made for journeys not destinations
- Confucius
Were there darker provinces of night he would have found them.
- Cormac McCarthy
When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
- Cormac McCarthy
He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town
- Cormac McCarthy