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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.”
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”
“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”
“You have your ideology and I have mine.”
“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
“What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
“If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”
“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.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”