“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“Love gives nothing but itself, and takes nothing but from itself. Love does not possess, nor would it be possessed. And do not think that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.”

“You who travel with the wind, what weather vane shall direct your course?”

“When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”

“And when you work with love you bind your self to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”

“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”