Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach...

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and...

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

We live in the world when we love it.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.

I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was&lt;br /&gt;<br /> Joy.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Age considers; youth ventures.

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music...

Music is the purest forms of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes...

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.