Kahlil Gibran

If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.

Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.