When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.