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Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
The journey is my home.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
Colors are the smiles of nature.
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 alms of those who work with joy.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
Love either finds equality or makes it.
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
Come, let us make love deathless.
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Living well is the best revenge.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
