My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.