Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.