If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.