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Letter "D" » discover
«Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.»
Author: Andre Gide
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About:
Adventure,
Courage,
Discovery,
Inspiration,
Risk-taking
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Keywords:
courage,
discover,
lose,
new,
New Man,
oceans,
on sight,
shore,
sight,
sighting
«Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.»
Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Historian,
Musician)
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About:
Challenge,
Life
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Keywords:
Challenges,
discover,
help,
help out,
paralyze,
paralyzes,
paralyzing,
supposed,
supposes
«There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.»
«The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.»
«I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.»
«Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it»
«One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Keywords:
affects,
birth,
bring about,
conditioning,
contentment,
core,
degree,
discover,
human being,
ideology,
neither,
question,
social,
suffering,
therefore,
think about,
underlie,
underlies
«Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.»
«Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
blood,
blooded,
Blood and,
discover,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
The Writings,
write,
Writings,
written
«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Death and dying,
Life
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Keywords:
came,
deliberately,
discover,
essential,
facts,
facts of life,
front,
fronted,
fronts,
have-not,
Into the Woods,
lived,
out front,
Teach,
The Facts of Life,
went,
wished,
woods