We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.