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.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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?

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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?

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.

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

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.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

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.

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

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

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

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.

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.

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

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Love is trembling happiness.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

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.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

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

If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I’m finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

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.