“Darkness is dawn not yet born.”

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

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.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

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.

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

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

You are a child of the moon darling born from light.

A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year – and has yet to receive a Mother’s Day card from one of them.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.