March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. 732
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. 661
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. 609
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. 693
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. 1.83K
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. 600
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. 2.08K
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. 610
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. 590
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. 574
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. 2.23K
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. 552
