Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but it is a wonderful by-product.”

“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”

“We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone — but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“If you wish to receive, you must first give. And if you would have love, then you must first practice love.”

“Wisdom is not in words; wisdom is meaning within words.”

“Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.”

“What we long for and what we cannot reach is dearer than what we have attained.”

“The most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“We are limited not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”

“Don't seat me with those who long to be seated. Seat me with those who long to walk.”

“If God did not bestow on me an honest tongue and sincere heart, then He has gifted me with an awareness that the spoken word is more than wind.”

“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”