Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.