Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
From a sensitive woman’s heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind’s affection.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players – buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.