“Life is an island in an ocean of loneliness, an island whose rocks are hopes, whose trees are dreams, whose flowers are solitude, and whose brooks are thirst.”
Merit
“A man’s merit lies in his knowledge and in his deeds, not in his color, faith, or descent.For remember, my friend, the son of a shepherd who possesses knowledge is of greater worth to a nation that the heir to a throne, if he be ignorant.Knowledge is your true patent of nobility, no matter who your father or what your race may be.”
ON LOVE
“I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers, and Selma Karamy was the first women who awakened my spirit with her beauty and led me into the garden of high affection, where days pass like dreams and nights like weddings.”
OF THE FIRST LOOK
“It is that moment that divides the intoxication of Life from the awakening.It is the first flame that lights up the inner domain of the heart.It is the first magic note plucked on the silver string of the heart.It is that brief moment that unfolds before the soul the chronicles of time, and reveals to the eyes the deeds of the night, and the works of conscience.It opens Eternity’s secrets of the future.It is the seed cast by Ishtar, goddess of Love, and sown by the eyes of the beloved in the field of Love, brought forth by affection, and reaped by the soul.The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth, when the Lord spoke and said, “Let there be.”
OF THE FIRST KISS
“It is the first sip from the cup filled by the goddess of with the nectar of Life.It is the dividing line between Doubt that beguiles the spirit and saddens the heart, and Certitude that floods the inner self with joy. It is the beginning of the song of Life and the first act in the drama of the Ideal Man.It is the bond that unites the strangeness of the past with the brightness of the future; the link between the silence of the feelings and their song.It is a word uttered by four lips proclaiming the heart a throne, Love a King, and fidelity a crown.It is the gentle touch of the delicate fingers of the breeze on the lips of the rose-uttering a long sigh of relief and a sweet moan.It is the beginning of that magic vibration that carries the lovers from the world of weights and measures into the world of dreams and revelations.”
