Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way? Bill Bryson
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  1. Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life. - Roy T. Bennett

  2. Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back... - Saul D. Alinsky

  3. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. - Laurence Sterne

  4. ... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. - Norton Juster

  5. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

More Quotes By Bill Bryson
  1. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only...

  2. If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly...

  3. As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

  4. I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

  5. Thoreau was an idiot.

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