One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

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

The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness…

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind...

But 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...

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which...

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words

Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when...

You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand

Work is love made visible.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.