When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting...

… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to...

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save...

They say that if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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...

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to...

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Virtue tested: “Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?”

Your friend is your needs answered.

the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God’s secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body’s elements do not tell the mysteries of...

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy

I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is...

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

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.’

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.