kahlil Gibran

“Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.” [The Profit]

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

“But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.”

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” [Sand and Foam]

“I have see the future and it is very much like the present—only longer.”

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

“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, and yet belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your 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, not tarries with yesterday.” [The Profit]