All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

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

Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.

Love is trembling happiness.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.