Khalil Gibran

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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

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.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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