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

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.