Quotes to inspire and reflect

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

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

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.