All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
“If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price”
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.