 To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. |
| No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. |
| Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. |
| Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. |
| 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. |
| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
| Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. |
| Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. |
| Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. |
| Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. |
| The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. |
| Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. |
| Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. |
| Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. |
| I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. |
| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. |
| Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. |
| You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. |
| And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. |
| We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. |
