Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Your friend is your needs answered.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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.

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.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Love is trembling happiness.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

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.

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.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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.

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.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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 my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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.

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.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.