More quotes by Khalil Gibran

"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."
"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."
"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."