Khalil Gibran

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

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy.

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

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

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

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.