Khalil Gibran

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Your friend is your needs answered."

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

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

"Love is trembling happiness."

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

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