When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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.
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.