Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.
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.
Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man
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.
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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.
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love is trembling happiness.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
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