Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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.

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

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

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.