The following quote is from Gordon Marino's so-far excellent The Existentialist's Survival Guide : How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age: Among my suburban cohort and students, the once-urgent

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.

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and