Sand and Foam

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

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

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

Seven times I have despised my soul: The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled. The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy. The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong. The fifth time when she forbode for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength. The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.