All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Only love and death will change all things.

Love is trembling happiness.

Do not say, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

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

The earth is like a child that knows not its mother.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Work is love made visible.

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

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

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

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

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

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.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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.

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

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

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

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

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

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

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

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

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.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.