Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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.
بعد ذلك قنطت. وليس بين عناصر النفس عنصر أمر من القنوط. ليس في الحياة شيء أصعب من أن يقول المرء لنفسه لقد غُلبت.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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. Some of you say, Joy is greater than sorrow, and others say, Nay,...
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.
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.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
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.