Kahlil Gibran

"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."

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

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

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

"And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."

"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

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

"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."

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