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."

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

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

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

"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"

"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."

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

"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."

"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."