Being Discovered Gifts

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

"Behold the secret to happiness."

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

"Soul searching? Yes, you could call it that."

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

Intelligent people laugh too!

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

"Oh, great - They changed the Meaning of Life again."

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

"Oh indeed I did: I went feral for a year when I was young. It taught me a lot about the world, but about myself too..."

Pinocchio's Second Realization

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

Man stood by signpost to 'here' or 'there'.

The Seven Dwarfs After Therapy

"Existentialist Trail. Get lost then found. Nietzsche Park System"

"It's not face paint. I'm transitioning into a snow leopard."

"Eventually, you'll learn to hate your body, then love it again, then hate it—and back and forth until the beach becomes very complicated."

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

"I shop, therefore I am."

The star hunters

A woman is as young as she feels like admitting to.

'Are we there yet? Huh? Have we achieved Nirvana yet? Huh, have we?'

Wilhelm Rontgen's first attempt at X-rays: shining a bright light through Madame Rontgen.

'I'm going to have an out-of-body experience -- can I bring you anything?'

The Map of the Human Heart

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

"Is this who I am?"

"So you're just now tellin' me I was hatched from an egg and I coulda' left years ago?!?"

"If you're trying to find yourself, Mr. Ludlow, just ping your phone."

'Let's call him lucky!'

Planned service changes

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

'Oh, yeah? -- Well, my true inner self can whip your true inner self!'