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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
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.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.