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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we ar
Henry David Thoreau
Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.
Jodi Picoult
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
E. M. Cioran
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine De SaintExupery
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Walker Percy
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
Jack Kerouac
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
Sir Isaac Newton, letter to his
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
Lewis Mumford
Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Abraham Lincoln
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert SzentGyorgyi
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz
