All quotes

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

Work is love made visible.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.