It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Love is trembling happiness.
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
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