For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? |
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? |
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. |
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. |
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. |
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection. |
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. |
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. |
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange. |
I am ungrateful to these teachers. |
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. |
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers |
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. |