And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift,...

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Der Lehrer […] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man’s law shall bind you if...

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape...

Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of...

There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of...

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take...

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest...

When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and...

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are...

When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when...

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that...

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

Vergnügen ist ein Lied der Freiheit, – Aber es ist keine Freiheit.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,And what is it to work with love?It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from...

Einige Junge unter euch suchen das Vergnügen, als sei es alles, und sie werden getadelt und verurteilt. – Ich würde sie weder tadeln noch verurteilen. Ich würde sie suchen lassen.

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank...

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whispers:First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years, with naught...

True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul,and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your...

Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one...

Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,...

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the...

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart...

And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

[I]hr könnt nur frei sein, wenn selbst der Wunsch, die Freiheit zu suchen, euch zum Zügel wird und wenn ihr aufhört, von Freiheit als Ziel und Erfüllung zu reden.

Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets...

When a man kills another man, the people say he is a murderer, but when the Emir kills him, the Emir is just. When a man robs a monastery, they say he is a thief,...

And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.You would...

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem