You Are Sometimes Crescent, Sometimes Full by Rumi

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings....
Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're
sometimes crescent, sometimes full.
Rumi

Truth between the possssion & the pursuit by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.

If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say: Father, I will take this one—the pure Truth is for You alone.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Never to wound a man's heart! by Nikos Kazantzakis

I'm going to tell you a secret. You're too small to understand now,
but you'll understand when you are bigger. Listen, little one:
neither the seven stories of heaven nor the seven stories of the earth
are enough to contain God; but a man's heart can contain him.
So be very careful,and may my blessing go with you —
never to wound a man's heart!
Nikos Kazantzakis,Zorba the Greek

Story of man's life by Hermann Hesse

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

Each man's life represents the road toward himself, and attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that — one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.
Hermann Hesse

The greatest exception in Love by Johann Wolfgang goethe

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception.
The great majority love in others only what they lend him;
their own selves, their version of him.
Johann Wolfgang goethe

Reason, love and & the will by Ludwig Feuerbach

The power of thought is the light of knowledge,
the power of will is the energy of character,
the power of heart is love.
Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
Ludwig Feuerbach

Is it man that possesses love,
or is it not much rather love that possesses man?
Ludwig Feuerbach

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. Yeats

Dear creature!—you'd swear
When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,
That her steps are of light, that her home is the air,
And she only par complaisance touches the ground.
Thomas Moore