I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
Rabih AlameddineTags: self-discovery discovery escape searching
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
Dorothy AllisonMy heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.
Lauren OliverWas it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
David MarksonTags: solitude loneliness searching
And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth.
Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....
Tags: fright searching hand coraline the-other-mother
When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout.
Holly SchindlerTags: love transparency searching
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: intelligence thinking meaning-of-life searching philosophical-musings
Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?
André GideTags: attraction longing searching
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss JamiTags: reality practice self-esteem confidence self winning enemies opposition sports fighting achievement competition striving training searching pressure improvement enemies-and-opposition mirrors athletics rivals academics struggling athletes scrambling practicing
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
Criss JamiTags: art photography beauty perspective vision philosophy philosopher modeling searching teachings photos finding photographer searching-and-finding layman
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