What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if...

Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very...

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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

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.

Love is trembling happiness.

The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Let the earth take that which is hers; for I, man, have no end

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Let there be space in your togetherness

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success

During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.

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

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?

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.

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

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.