“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“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.”
“Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.”
“Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”
“The only true paradise is paradise lost”