You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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.
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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.
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
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