More quotes by Kahlil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."