113 quotes found
“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
“Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.”
“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.”
“Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
“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.And when he speaks to you ...”
“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor the song you...”
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, o...”
“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
“Yesterday is but to-days memory and to-morrow is to-days dream.”
“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
“Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”
“In your winter you deny your spring,”
“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage ...”
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
“What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”
“Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.You m...”
“You may give them your love but not your thougts, 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 ...”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
