Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
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.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.