Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Life is the mistress to be wooed.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man’s life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.