When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

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

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.