The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.
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.
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
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.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you. And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that youyourself deserve to be a giver , and an insturument of giving. For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
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