Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

But 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.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

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

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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.

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.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

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

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.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.