A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I… recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for. ~Joseph Addison, 1712
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. ~Neil Simon
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along. ~Madeleine L’Engle
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times – and this is the worst of all – before we have new ones. ~G.C. Lichtenberg
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~Ralph Parlette
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. ~Arthur Christopher Benson
When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. ~Dorothy Bryant
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. ~Erich Fromm
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
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ~Nicolas Chamfort
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. ~Richard Bach
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ~George Eliot
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread. ~Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940
The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses – secret senses, sixth senses, if you will – equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke
God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience – and laughter. ~Susan M. Watkins
Quality begins on the inside… and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad
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