#discover

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #self-discovery #trust #truth #friendship

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#another #anyone #bizarre #disappear #discovers

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#chance #disaster #discovery #each #fulfillment

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#discovery #meeting #mind #prepared #prepared mind

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#discovers #ever #his #loneliness #own

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#america #best #bring #deeds #genius

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#commercial #discovered #i #liked #me

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#encouraged #facts #learners #relationships #themselves