A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.
No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
The unthankful heart. . . discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. . . It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses. . . Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. . . Imagination too shows what is. . . Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.
When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.