Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. – Ralph Parlette Category: Self-Discovery
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond Category: Self-Discovery
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Logic of Elfland,” Orthodoxy, 1908 Category: Self-Discovery
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. – Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985 Category: Self-Discovery
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron Category: Flattery
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther Category: Nature
