When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorry as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation.

إن عقلكم و هواكم هما الدفة والشراع لنفسكم الماخرة عباب اليم

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

My being away from the city, living a simple, quiet, and orderly life near the sea and the woods, has stilled the palpitations of my heart.

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;