Top 100 Quotes About Discovering Life
#1. Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.
Ruth Bernhard
#3. I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Rick Warren
#5. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.
Steve Maraboli
#6. Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call
Elizabeth Gilbert
#7. We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents ... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn ... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.
Charles Handy
#8. That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
Zoe Kravitz
#9. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
Gloria Steinem
#10. God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.
Karen Kingston
#12. It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition.
Julian Barnes
#13. We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.
Gregory Bateson
#14. It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence.
Ahlam Mosteghanemi
#15. You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
Criss Jami
#17. Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
Larry Ellison
#18. Dedicate time to discovering yourself and find out the purpose of your creation
Sunday Adelaja
#19. With God, life is eternal-both in quality and length. There is no joy comparable to the joy of discovering something new from God, about God. If the continuing life is a life of joy, we will go on discovering, learning.
Eugenia Price
#20. Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
Robert Breault
#21. It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it ... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.
Derrick Jensen
#22. Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#23. Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God's purpose for your life
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.
Shanthi Sekaran
#25. The process of discovering your greatest self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern and hinder it.
Steve Maraboli
#26. Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]
Julian Barnes
#28. The more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
Soren Kierkegaard
#29. The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.
Shakti Gawain
#30. I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J.B. Priestley
#31. I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.
Jane Goodall
#32. We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#34. According to Father O'Dowd's description, the seminary catered to both ends of the religious life, training the next crop of young men taking holy orders and providing a retirement home for those closer to discovering if they'd backed the right horse.
David J. Oldman
#35. What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Chuck Palahniuk
#36. An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.
John Dewey
#37. post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities.
Sheryl Sandberg
#38. Like Adam and Eve we have to discover what life is all by ourselves.
Marty Rubin
#39. Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.
Simeon Denis Poisson
#40. Jesus envisions that discovering God's kingdom will inspire two things: exhilarating joy, and huge change in your life.
Rick Stinton
#41. I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#42. That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens.
Arjuna Ardagh
#43. Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
Carl Honore
#44. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#45. Humans alone of all living creatures can reject the law of the jungle and create a code of conduct based on empathy and directed at discovering the meaning of life.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#46. I love vocab. It's like spelunking in a cave you've been in your whole life and discovering a thousand new tunnels.
A.S. King
#47. School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
E. M. Forster
#49. Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.
Anne F. Beiler
#50. It wasn't the New World that mattered ... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#51. The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.
Dan Miller
#52. Therapy, like life, is a process -- a journey toward greater self-awareness and healing -- where the in-the-moment experience is often as enriching as discovering one's destination.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#53. The next thing to do after discovering who you are is to build and add value to yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#54. I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
Mia Kirshner
#55. The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are, The second greatest is being happy with what you find.
Auliq Ice
#56. the author of Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life.
Dan Buettner
#57. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.
Ira Progoff
#58. He had been ploughing his way through the early volumes, discovering the origins of Lazenby's twin obsessions: sex and eternal life.
Jonathan Aycliffe
#59. Real success starts with discovering the reason you have your unique life, with all its trials and circumstances - why you were gifted with it, and what you need to do with it.
Wanda Krause
#60. The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
Ken Robinson
#61. Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life.
Toba Beta
#62. The bulk of life is discovering who you are - and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. The one who lives her life in circles, discovering, entering into, forgetting and losing, finding her way round again, living her life in layers
deeper, round, further in. I know 'eucharisteo' and the miracle. But I am not a woman who ever lives the full knowing.
Ann Voskamp
#64. You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential
Sunday Adelaja
#65. I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's the character that I love now - discovering that in him makes him a very sort of accessible Avenger. That'll always be there, I'm sure. And it certainly plays in this one.
Jeremy Renner
#66. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
#67. I feel like I am either on the cusp of something great, or standing on the edge of my abyss, discovering something brand new, or uncovering somebody elses lost imagination.
Carroll Bryant
#68. Discovering life in oneself is to become all you can be
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally.
Sarah Silverman
#70. Heroism is all about discovering our purpose of life, exercising the Power of ONE and affirming the Power of Intent which we are all blessed with. The Seriousness of intent and Honesty of Purpose can help each individual awaken the hero within.
Jeroninio Almeida
#71. The church is supposed to help the people discover their calling and reveal the Kingdom of God to them
Sunday Adelaja
#72. The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
Pythagoras
#73. Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel
Carl Henegan
#74. The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
Leon Edel
#75. Life is one sick joke after another, I'm discovering. Because it hardly seems fair that it should hurt so much to finally get exactly what I've been wishing for.
Amy Engel
#76. Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking.
Ehabib
#77. It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before.
Jane Green
#78. Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.
Marcel Proust
#79. I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.
Keith Miller
#80. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The
Mary Shelley
#81. Obedience always is the first step to discovering God's plan for your life.
Charles F. Stanley
#83. To know the brain ... is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#84. Nothing is perfect and this is the perfect reason for men to keep on learning, understanding and discovering.
Dee Dee Artner
#85. The best job in the world is discovering life for yourself.
Marty Rubin
#86. Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.
David A.R. White
#87. Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#88. Books alone were not adequate preparation for life - as Mary was herself discovering. And by pointing this out, she was pointing a finger at those, like her father and Shelley, who sometimes insisted otherwise
Dorothy Hoobler
#89. I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.
Matthew Fox
#90. Discovering While Doing Is Natural ...
But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!
Sujit Lalwani
#91. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.
Lisa J. Shultz
#92. The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.
Vijay Krishna
#93. One of life's coolest treasure is discovering your purpose.
O. Stephen Peart
#94. I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.
Alice Braga
#95. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Barbara Ess
#96. Having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
David Levithan
#97. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.
William T. Vollmann
#99. Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.
Ted Chiang
#100. Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.
Lysa TerKeurst
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