Khalil Gibran

“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”

“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”

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

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

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

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”