Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel...

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

you are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Bedauern ist die Trübung des Geistes und nicht seine Läuterung.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between...

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal...

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

Sicher gibt es kein größeres Geschenk für einen Menschen als das, was all seine Ziele zu brennenden Lippen und alles Leben zu einem Brunnen macht.

And then a scholar said, “Speak of talking.” And he answered, saying: “And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion...