The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

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 nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Only love and death will change all things.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

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.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

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

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.