"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living to the dead;I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."
"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy"
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."