"To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him."

Discovery, Faith, Identity, Presence

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"To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him."

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"We all seek for lost things within us."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Discovery, Truth, Self, Power, Wisdom

"Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1) The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2) The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3) The discovery of new forms of life. 4) The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5)The acquaintance with new species of the human race--- their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.' What may be accomplished in a lifetime---and seldom or never is."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Discovery, Knowledge, Curiosity, Nature

"The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Discovery, Quest, Learning, Self

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Discovery, Opportunity

"No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Helen Keller, American Author

Discovery, Stars, Spirit, Secrets

"I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living."

Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

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"Some things were better lost than found."

Stephen King, American Author

Discovery, Mystery, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Discovery, Self, Twilight, Mystery

"Discovering an inner history requires listening " and often not to the first story told."

Sherry Turkle, American Author

Discovery, History, Listening, Identity

"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."

Ally Condie, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Ann Voskamp

"Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?"

Emotion

"He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It's hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: "His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB)."

Faith

"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."

Grace

"When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds open when we mouth thanks."

Renewal

"Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."

Transition

"Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic."

Commitment

"When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here."

Presence

"Christian hands never claspand He doesn't give gifts for gainbecause a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given."

Giving

"Hurry always empties a soul."

Stillness

"I hunger for filling in a world that is starved."

Purpose