Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Love is trembling happiness.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

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

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

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

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.