“All feelings are pure that gather you and lift you up.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet (1903)
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“All feelings are pure that gather you and lift you up.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet (1903)
“Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince (1943)
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince (1943)
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince (1943)
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)
“I am the least of all in the world. You are the greatest of all. I am your smallest child, and yet your greatest blessing.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The Book of Hours (1905)
“Those who live with care are never too unlucky.”
— Anonymous
Everyday thought
“"Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all —”
— Emily Dickinson
Poem 254 ("Hope" is the thing with feathers) (1861)
“Success is counted sweetest — By those who ne'er succeed —”
— Emily Dickinson
Poem 67 (Success is counted sweetest) (1859)
“A sepal, petal, and a thorn — Upon a common summer's morn — A flash of dew, a bee or two — A breeze — a caper in the trees — And I'm a Rose!”
— Emily Dickinson
Poem 19 (A sepal, petal, and a thorn) (1858)
“Love is the fulfillment of life. We love not to be loved, but to love.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener (1913)
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise (lecture) (1978)
“Stop and look at beautiful flowers — life's beauty hides in the little things.”
— Anonymous
Everyday thought
“Love is the only way to make life complete.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener (1913)
“Love liberates the soul from the cage of self-enclosure.”
— Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise (1978)
“May we live long and share the beauty of the moon, though a thousand miles apart.”
— Su Shi
Shuidiao Getou: When Will the Moon Be Bright? (1076)
“If what you give me is the same as what you give everyone else, then I don't want it.”
— Sanmao
How Many Flowers Have Fallen in My Dreams (1981)
“Love that does not come down to earth — to dressing, eating, sleeping, counting money — will not last.”
— Sanmao
Tender Nights (1979)
“In friendship, the most beautiful is the icing on the cake; the most precious is the coal in the snow.”
— Sanmao
Dear Sanmao (1985)
“Love is not a necessity — it is an adornment.”
— Sanmao
Reflections (1983)
“I'll watch the meteor shower with you — and the sky grow old.”
— Sanmao
How Many Flowers Have Fallen in My Dreams (1981)
“If you love a flower that lives on a river, it is sweet to look at the sky at night.”
— Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha (1922)
“Just be a little more patient with the people and things you love.”
— Anonymous
Everyday thought
“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.”
— Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha (1922)
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Beautiful things always stir the soul — that is their meaning.”
— Oscar Wilde
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
— Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
“If you wish to be loved, love.”
— Seneca
Letters from a Stoic (65)
“Understanding is love's other name.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace (1987)
“To love means to understand. If you do not understand, you cannot love.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace (1987)
“What we do here is but a single wave's stroke. Yet that single stroke is enough to change the shape of the sea.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Being Peace (1987)
“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.”
— Rumi
Masnavi
“Let silence take you to the core of life.”
— Rumi
Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
“In the garden of my soul, I see roses blooming — that is the mark you left upon my heart.”
— Rumi
Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
“I found a door within my heart — and through it, only endless mercy.”
— Rumi
Masnavi