Mikhail Naimy Quotes

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• Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson…
• Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.
• He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!
• Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
• Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.
• As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form..
• To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed…
• Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in…
• If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful…
• So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in…
• Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.
• Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
• The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
• How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found…
• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but…
• Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to…
• No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a…
• Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
• Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

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