“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

To live is to be slowly born.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.