Bird of paradise Quotes

“If you buy an egg thinking it's a goose's egg, and when it hatches it is actually a bird of paradise; no manner of convincing and reproach will turn the bird of paradise into a goose. Even if you make it go to goose church and goose school and eat goose feeds and only hang out with geese! In the end, it will still belong to paradise.”

“The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.”

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”

“The Bird of Paradise, it seemed, had beckoned us on and led us in, to stand here in this place high in the land of volcanoes. It was here in Bali, after returning from the Toraja Star Children, that I first recognized what they meant by us all being born half of heaven and half of earth. And after the mounted warsports of Sumba it was in Balinese ritual that I saw with new eyes the battle for balance between light and darkness. And after Borneo, returning to the sacred Banyan tree and its simian custodians, I had felt that all great trees, what’s left of them, do indeed link heaven and earth in a single forest of life.”

“I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?”

“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.”

“I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.”

“I was that kind of tired you feel when you’ve spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure.”

“I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.”