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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

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

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.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.