Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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
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.
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
Love is trembling happiness.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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