Inspirational Sayings
59 sayings found from the Medieval era from 19 authors
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The people of this country are very superstitious, and they believe in magic.
In the Sahara, I saw a man who claimed to be 350 years old. He looked like a dried-up lizard, but the locals believed him.
I went on board, leaving my companions behind, and saw the Sultan of India, the most generous, courageous, and powerful of men, but without a drop of mercy in his heart.
To listen is to plant a seed in the silent heart.
He wraps gold in dust, who wishes for beauty without struggle.
Words are the empty shells; listen for the song beneath them.
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
The lock of the world is on the door of the heart.
The world is a dream, and life is a play. The actors are many, but the director is one.
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
The path is not in the sky; the path is in the heart.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
The world is like a great empty dream.
I dreamt I wandered to the moon—it was cold and wet.
The aim of the law is to make man perfect, and it is impossible for man to be perfect so long as his mind is not perfect.
The purpose of the entire Torah is to bring man to this perfection.
The physician must be able to discern the state of health of a person from his speech, his gait, his sleep, his dreams, his appetite, his thirst, his excretions, and his thoughts.
I believe it was God's will that we should come to these parts, so that people should know what there is in the world.
And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a dream, he goes to a wise man, and the wise man interprets his dream for him.
And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a house, he paints it with many colors, and he decorates it with many ornaments.