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“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, ...”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of t...”
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to ...”
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-se...”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?”
“Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”
“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...”
“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.”
