“ Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ”
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
~ Freya Stark
The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you
What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.