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.
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.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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.
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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."
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.
My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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