Kahlil Gibran

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

"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"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."

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

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."