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"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
"Say not, 'I have found the truth, ' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
"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."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers."
"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
"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."
"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."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
