Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. |
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - imperfection - and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. |
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. |
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. |
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. |
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. |
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. |
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter. |
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. |