Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
The silence of the envious is too noisy.
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
He who denies his heritage, has no heritage.
Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart...
I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.
Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.