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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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...