Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Khalil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Khalil Gibran

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. Khalil Gibran

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Khalil Gibran

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. Khalil Gibran

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Khalil Gibran

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. 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. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. Khalil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Khalil Gibran

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. Khalil Gibran

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

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 your one voice in all voices. Khalil Gibran