What Does My Birthday Say About Me

Love without possession is the great secret of a happy life. –Alfred J. Parker

Pure logic scintillates in human darkness like the refraction of light from lovely jewels. It stands out amidst mental confusion. –Alfred J. Parker

The wind does not talk with more gentleness to giant oaks than to the smallest leaf of grass. –Kahlil Gibran

I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one's constructive mental attitude toward life. One gets out of life only what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one-destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds. Happy thoughts expressed are like the sunbeams that create warmth-that stimulate one's sense of well being and make us feel happy. Give happiness and you will receive it in return: it is a natural phenomenon of a balanced and well-ordered mind. Do not complain; instead seek the solution to the problem, and then you can do something constructive about it. This can best be accomplished by forgetting self; too much false value is placed upon self and personality, thus developing an overrated and inflated ego that sees all things in proportion to its own ignorance. –Alfred J. Parker