When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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?
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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 a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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.
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.
A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.
A root is a flower that disdains fame.
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
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