Khalil Gibran

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

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

“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.”

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

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

“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.”

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

“Love is trembling happiness.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

“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.”

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

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

“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.”