Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
I'd learned my lesson.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.