Khalil Gibran

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”

“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

“Love is trembling happiness.”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”