He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you.Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
No one can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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.
