If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.