More quotes by Kahlil Gibran

"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."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"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."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"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."