‘It is in such supreme moments that growth is the greatest.  It comes as with a vast surge, this feeling of strength and sufficiency. We may still tremble, the fear of doing wretchedly may linger, but we grow. Flashes of inspiration come to guide the soul. In nature there is no outside. When we are cast from a group or a condition we have still the companionship of all that is. Nature is not ungenerous. Its winds and stars are fellows with you. Let the soul be but gentle and receptive, and this vast truth will come home- not in set phrases, perhaps, but as a feeling, a comfort, which, after all, is the last essence of knowledge.’

- T.Dreiser