Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love..

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes..

Rest in reason. Move in Passion..

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married..

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad..

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only b….

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life….

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand..

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

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living..

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways..

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them..

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance..

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday..

The longing for paradise is paradise itself..

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..

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your he….

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people….

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burnin….