Kahlil Gibran

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

“Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images.”

“And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.”

“I do not know the absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

“All that I shall say is shed by my soul in slumber.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”

“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.”

“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”

“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.”

“Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.”

“It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but a lid that guards the eye.”

“And what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”

“And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?”

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.”

“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”