“The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.”

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

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

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.

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.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not look away.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

Making new friends is tough. You don’t really know who to trust when you’re away from people that you love a lot.

Love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.