"Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible."

Discovery, Surprise, Change, Curiosity, New

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"Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible."

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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

"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

Discovery, Curiosity, Life, Learning

"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

Discovery, Love, Word, Identity

"Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it."

Henry James, American Writer

Discovery, Desire, Observation, Life

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"Time to toss the dice."

Risk, Chance, Dice, Fate, Uncertainty

"Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story."

Illusion, Hero, Reality, Sleep, Fantasy

"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes."

Irony, War, Fools, Cause, Death

"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""

Irony, Pride, Fall, Perception, Power

"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."

Deception, Lies, Truth, Oath, Implication

"There is some delight in ale and wineAnd some in girls with ankles fineBut my delight, yes always mineIs to dance with Jak O' the ShadowsWe will toss the dice however they fallAnd snuggle the girls be they short or tallThen follow Lord Mat whenever he callsTo dance with Jak O' the Shadows."

Celebration, Joy, Song, Battle, Freedom

"What did you spend so much time talking about with Ila? If you weren't dancing with that long-legged fellow, you were talking to her like it was some kind of secret. "Ila was giving me advice on being a woman, Egwene replied absently. He began laughing, and she gave him a hooded, dangerous look that he failed to see."Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." That, Egwene said, "is probably why you make such a bad job of it."

Dialogue, Gender, Advice, Identity, Humor

"Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off."

Gender, Women, Heart, Emotion, Violence

"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."

Gender, Women, Beauty, Mind, Creation

"Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes."

Mortality, Death, Courage, Acceptance, Choice