The Prophet Quotes

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.”

“Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.”

“Master, Master of Light, Whose eye dwells in the seeking fingers of the blind, You are still despised and mocked, A man too weak and infirm to be God, A God too much man to call forth adoration.”

“But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows.”

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

“A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.”

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”

“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”

“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

“My enemy said to me, "Love your enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.”

“The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.”

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

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

“For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”

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

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

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”