113 quotes found
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
“You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving.The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”
“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”
“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”
“Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?”
“In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.”
“But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.”
“Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem”
“You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that yo...”
“And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .”
“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.These things move within...”
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”
“A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.”
