| "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." |
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| "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." |
| "All that spirits desire, spirits attain." |
| "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." |
| "Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife." |
| "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." |
| "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." |
| "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." |
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| "Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers." |
| "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." |
| "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." |
| "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." |
| "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." |
| "If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved." |
| "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." |
| "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." |
| "Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds." |
| "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 atoms." |
| "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." |
| "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." |
| "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." |
| "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." |
| "Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." |
| "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." |
| "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." |
| "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is." |
| "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." |
| "The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers." |
| "They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve." |
| "Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." |
| "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." |
| "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble." |
| "What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?" |
| "What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?" |
| "What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?" |
| "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?" |
| "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." |
| "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." |
| "Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking." |
| "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." |
| "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." |
| "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow." |
| ... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. |
| 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 those who inhabit the mountain? |
| A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A root is a flower that disdains fame. |
| A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success |
| Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. |
| All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. |
| All that spirits desire, spirits attain. |
| 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 nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror. |
| An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper |
| An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. |
| And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
| 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. |
| And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. |
| And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. |
| And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. |
| Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. |
| Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. |
| Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. |
| As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. |
| Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. |
| Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart |
| Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart. |
| But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. |
| By losing your goal, you have lost your way. |
| Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. |
| Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. |
| Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. |
| Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. |
| 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. |
| Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. |
| Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. |
| Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... |
| Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. |
| Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. |
| Faith is an Oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking |
| Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. |
| Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God. |
| For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one |
| 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. |
| For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all. |
| For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? |
| For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? |
| Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
| Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. |
| Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity. |
| From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. |
| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
| 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. |
| God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them. |
| God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. |
| Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. |
| Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. |
| 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. |
| He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. |
| He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. |
| He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it. |
| History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. |
| I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. |
| 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. |
| I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. |
| I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers |
| I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. |
| I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. |
| I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. |
| I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. |
| 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. |
| I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. |
| I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. |
| If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. |
| If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. |
| 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. |
| If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember. |
| If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember |
| If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. |
| If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. |
| If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. |
| If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. |
| If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? |
| 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. |
| In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans |
| In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. |
| In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. |
| In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. |
| In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. |
| It is only when you are pursued that you become Swift |
| It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body |
| It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. |
| It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. |
| It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations |
| It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. |
| Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower. |
| Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. |
| Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. |
| 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 atoms. |
| Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. |
| Let there be spaces in your togetherness. |
| Let your best be for your friend... |
| Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. |
| 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 when there is love. |
| Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. |
| Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. |
| Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. |
| Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. |
| Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy |
| Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons. |
| Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course |
| Love is trembling happiness. |
| Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. |
| Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. |
| Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man. |
| Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. |
| March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. |
| March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. |
| Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. |
| Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. |
| Much of your pain is self-chosen. |
| Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. |
| Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. |
| My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. "Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. "Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. "Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. "Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. |
| No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. |
| No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. |
| No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon. |
| Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. |
| Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. |
| Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. |
| 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 |
| Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. |
| Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. |
| Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. |
| Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. |
| Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. |
| Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. |
| Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. |
| Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion! |
| Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. |
| Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. |
| Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. |
| Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' |
| Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. |
| Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' |
| 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, pay heed to them. |
| Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality |
| Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution |
| Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. |
| Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. |
| That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man |
| The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. |
| The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. |
| 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. |
| The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? |
| The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. |
| The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. |
| The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness... |
| The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. |
| The highest virtue here may be least in another world. |
| The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. |
| The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment. A tear and a smile. |
| The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality. |
| The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. |
| The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master |
| The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. |
| The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. |
| The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in The Foundation. |
| The mother is everything?she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly. |
| The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg |
| The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. |
| The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. |
| 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. |
| The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. |
| The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say. |
| The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. |
| the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed |
| The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness |
| The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. |
| The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. |
| 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 |
| The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. |
| The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. |
| The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion. |
| The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven. |
| There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. |
| There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine |
| There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing |
| They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. |
| 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. |
| 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 slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr |
| Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. |
| To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice |
| To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. |
| To be closer to God, be closer to people. |
| To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life. |
| To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. |
| To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. |
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
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| Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. |
| Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. |
| Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. |
| 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?" |
| Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. |
| Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. |
| We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. |
| We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. |
| We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. |
| We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words |
| We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. |
| We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. |
| What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? |
| What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters? |
| What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? |
| When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind |
| When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. |
| When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. |
| When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. |
| When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. |
| 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? |
| 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 through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. |
| Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? |
| 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? |
| Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. |
| Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. |
| Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words. |
| Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. |
| 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. |
| Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem |
| Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. |
| Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. |
| Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. |
| You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand |
| You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. |
| You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? |
| You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
| You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. |
| You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done. |
| You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun. |
| You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound. |
| You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . . but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. |
| Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. |
| Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. |
| Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. |
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go Swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable. |
| Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. |
| Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. |
| Your friend is your needs answered. |
| Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. |
| Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When y |
| Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. |
| Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. |
| Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. |
| Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. |
| Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. |
