Kahlil Gibran

"ولمّا فتحت قلبي لكي ارى السعادة, وجدت مرآتها وسريرها وملابسها, لكنّي لم اجدها."

"Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert."

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

"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."

"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."

"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But 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."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy"

"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"

"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."

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

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

"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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