When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Your soul is the whole world.

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.