Kahlil Gibran

"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."

"Work is love made visible. And if you can't 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 the people who work with joy"

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

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

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"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."

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."

"No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."

"Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe."

"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."

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

"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."

"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living to the dead;I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."