One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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.
If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in 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.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. 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. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all need a helping hand, Someone to share with, who'll understand. He made special people to see us through The glad times and the sad times, too; A person on whom we can always depend, Someone we can call a friend. God made friends so we'll carry a part Of His perfect love in all our hearts.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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.
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Love is trembling happiness.
You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
