They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?