“One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
— Khalil Gibran
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”
“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”
“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.”
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”
“Only love and death will change all things.”
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
“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 have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
“A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.”
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
“All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.”
“Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.”
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
“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.”
“A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.”
“Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.”
“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
“The power to Love is God’s greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.”
“Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart...”
“Remembrance is a form of meeting.”
“It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.”
“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
“The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...”
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.”
“What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
“Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.”
“Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.”
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
“But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.”
“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
“I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.”
“Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.”
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
“Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.”
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
“Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.”
“True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”
“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.”
“Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous.”
“It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”
“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”
“When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.”
“The true wealth of a nation lies not in it’s gold or silver but in it’s learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.”
“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.”
“Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
“Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.”
“One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.”
“I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.”
“Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.”
“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”
“And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”
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