Khalil Gibran

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

"Your friend is your needs answered."

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

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

"Love is trembling happiness."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."