Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.