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.
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.
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.
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.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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,...
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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.