Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.
For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.
A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a 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.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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.
I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.
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