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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.
Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.
The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End.
Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
The true disciple should aim to live for the gospel, rather than to die for it.
However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.
The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
If you can find the God inside yourself, you can find the God inside everybody.
If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.
There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.
Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.
The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.