Kahlil Gibran

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

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge.”

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”

“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.”

“Stand together yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

“Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

“It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely.”

“Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches.”

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

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

“If you love somebody, let them go.”