Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.
You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.
Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.
Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis. . . ; discovering Marxism. . . was like finding a map in the forest.
Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.
The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.
If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all the opportunities that complement him in knowledge and health, come from Divine Kindness and, that most of the material resources that are at his disposition and desires proceed from injustice.
Writing a poem is discovering.
having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle. '
I am always learning, always discovering.
The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.