Discovery Quotes - Page 39

• Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.

  Debbie Ford

  Powerful, Emotional, Journey

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.

  Ellen Langer

  Ideas, Creative, Listening

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• Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Science, Dna

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• The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Choices, Desire, Way

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• Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Healing, Thinking

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.

  Marina Keegan

  Love, Lonely, Dancing

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Self, Long

  "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote".

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• It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that it is better to know nothing than to keep in mind fixed ideas based on theories whose confirmation we constantly seek, neglecting meanwhile everything that fails to agree with them.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine".

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• The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fire, Patents, Add

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• The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.

  Rupert Spira

  Happiness And Love, Important, Moments

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• You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before. ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here.

  Phil Plait

  Feelings, Thrill, Done

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Innovation, Progress

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• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Feet, Drunk

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  William James

  Attitude, Elderly, Mind

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

  Isaac Asimov

  Way, Curious, Universe

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• You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

  Nate Berkus

  Challenges, Trying, Wonder

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• For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.

  Monty Roberts

  Hurt, Horse, Children

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• It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Garden, Hands

  "Excerpt: 'American Grown' by First Lady Michelle Obama", abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Don't expect anything from anybody, this is also a great freedom. Don't expect things to be different or people to be in service to you or your own life or projections. Feel gradually that natural feeling of detachment. Dont watch constantly with the eyes of relationship and past and so on. Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

  Mooji

  Eye, Past, People

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• Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.

  Scott Belsky

  Differences, Community, Clash

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• You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being.

  Mooji

  Body, Pure, Happenings

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• When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Love Is, Like Love

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• So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Liberation

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  J. I. Packer

  Determination, Knowing, Relief

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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