Quotes from the Book of Mirdad

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– Truth is an axiom; it needs no proof. Whatever must be propped with argument and proof is soon or late knocked down with proof and argument.

– You borrow everything you give so long as you are conscious of giving.

– There is nor poverty nor riches. There is a knack of using things. The really poor is he who misuses what he has. The really rich is he who well uses what he has.

– Vast is the difference between ‘holding’ and ‘being held’. You hold, only what you love. What you hate holds you. Avoid being held.

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– Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

– 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.

– 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 set him boundaries. Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

– 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.

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