Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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.

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.

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.

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