Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable...
وأيُّ وَالدٍ لا يَشُقُّ عليه فراقُ ابنتِه حتَّى ولو كَانت ذَاهبةً إلى بَيتِ جَارِه أو إلى قَصرِ مَلكٍ؟ أيُّ رجُلٍ لا تَرتَعشُ أعمَاقُ نفسِه بِالغَصَّاتِ عِندَما يَفصِلُه نَاموسُ الطَبيعةِ عن الابنةِ ا...
اما من به شــما می گـویم که این دو [شـادی و اندوه] از یکـدیگـر جــدا نیسـتنداین دو با هـم می آینـد ، و هـر گاه که شـما با یکی از آن ها بر ســرِ سـفـره می نشـینیـد ، به یاد داشـته باشـیدکه آن دیگری در...
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 may...
Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weepingFrom beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
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...
Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion.Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams, and flowers its loneliness, and it is in the middle of an ocean of solitude and secl...
على هذه الشطآن أسعى إلى الأبدبين الرمل مسعاى و بين الزَبَدسوف يطغى المدّ على آثار قدمى فيمحو ما وجدو تطوّح الريح بعيداً بعيداً بالزَبَدأما البحر و أما الشاطئ ، فباقيان إلى الأبد
منذ ابتداء الدهر إلى أيامنا هذه والفئة المتمسكة بالشرف الموروث تتحالف وتتفق مع الكهان ورؤساء الأديان على الشعب هي علة مزمنة قابضة بأظفارها على عنق الجامعة البشرية ولن تزول الا بزوال الغباوة من هذا الع...