“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.