Kahlil Gibran

“And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”

“You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.”

“The truth that needs proof is only half true.”

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

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

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence.”

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

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

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. Yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“If you love somebody, let them go.”