“Oh, why was I born with a thousand wings of the spirit and a ball and chain on every hand and foot of me?”

Expressing the tension between boundless spiritual aspiration and physical constraint · Diary

• Limitation
• Longing
• Spirit

“One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.”

On the necessity of struggle for genuine growth rather than resting in achievement · Diary or letter (commonly attributed)

• Learning
• Struggle
• Success