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.

Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you,...

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life...

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Perhaps Time’s Definition of Coal is the Diamond.