Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.
When a person loses a friend, he consoles himself with the many other friends about him, and if he loses his gold, he meditates for a while and casts misfortune from his mind, especially when he finds himself healthy and still laden with ambition. But when a man loses the ease of his heart, where can he find comfort, and with what can he replace it? What mind can master it?
Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.
You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
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.
Her bones were of bronze and her sinews of the ancient elms, and her eyes were like the sky, wide and daring.
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. Ay, you are like an ocean, And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.
I have always held, with my Madman, that those who understand us enslave something in us. It is not so with you. Your understanding of me is the most peaceful freedom I have known. And in the last two hours of your last visit you took my heart in your hand and found a black spot in it. But just as soon as you found the spot it was erased forever, and I became absolutely chainless.
Sorrow is just a wall between two gardens.
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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.
If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, “My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches. Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Love is the only freedom in this world, because it elevates the soul to a lofty station that cannot be attained by the laws and customs of human beings or conquered by the laws of nature.
I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
Wealth is as love in that it destroys him who withholds it but grants life to him who gives freely of it.