Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. |
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. |
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. |
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. |
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. |
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver |
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. |
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. |
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. |
Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon. |
Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. |
Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments |
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. |
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. |
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. |