We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.