"Just because" quotes here, found while researching a few articles and blog posts.

These thoughts may well provoke a few random and interesting thoughts of your own:

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are
endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,
vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep
inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our
trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk
curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals
the human spirit.
e.e. cummings

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
e.e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e.e. cummings

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Dr. Linus Pauling

My alma mater was books, a good library – I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr