Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.