You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

 

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

 

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

 

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.

 

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

 

To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

 

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

 

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

 

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

 

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

 

To belittle, you have to be little.

 

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

 

You have your ideology and I have mine.

 

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

 

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.

 

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

 

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.

 

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

 

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

 

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

 

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

 

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weigh the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

 

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

 

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.

 

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

 

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

 

Your friend is your needs answered.

 

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.

 

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.

 

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

 

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

 

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

 

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

 

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

 

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

 

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

 

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

 

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

 

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

 

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

 

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

 

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

 

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

 

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

 

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

 

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

 

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.

 

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