For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to... - Kahlil Gibran

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."