Gibran 2

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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.
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.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you 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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Love is trembling happiness.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.