Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

Reality is blocked by form and image.

O Beloved, where is the Beloved?

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.