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