Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.