Our horizon broadens; we feel a new power stirring through all our being; we experience a sense of relief, as if a great weight which long had pressed upon us had been removed.
We can converse with such people in a way that astonishes us, although meeting them, perhaps, for the first time.

We express ourselves more clearly and eloquently than we believed we could.

They draw out the best that is in us; they introduce us, as it were, to our larger, better selves.

With their presence, impulses and longings come thronging to our minds which never stirred us before.

All at once life takes on a higher and nobler meaning, and we are fired with a desire to do more than we have ever before done, and to be more than we have been in the past.
A few minutes before, perhaps, we were sad and discouraged, when, suddenly, the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities.
Sadness gives place to joy, despair to hope, and disheartenment to encouragement.