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Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.
The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.