Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
Work is love made visible.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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