Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Through me you pass into the city of woe through me you pass into eternal pain through me among the people lost for aye.

'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.