One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.