"Half of what I say is meaningless;
but I say it so that the other half may reach you".
-Kahlil Gibran

"Often times I have hated in self-defense;
if I were stronger
I would not have used such a weapon."
-Kahlil Gibran

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

"Music is the language of the spirit.
It opens the secret of life
bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Oh, heart,
if one should say to you
that the soul perishes like the body,
answer that the flower withers,
but the seed remains."
-Kahlil Gibran

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

Then said a teacher,
"Speak to us of Teaching."
And he said:
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which
already lies half asleep in the dawning of our
knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow
of the temple, among his followers, gives not
of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his
lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid
you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads
you to the threshold of your own mind.
The astronomer may speak to you of his
understanding of space, but he cannot give you
his understanding. The musician may sing to you
of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot
give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the
voice that echoes it. And he who is versed in the
science of numbers can tell of the regions of
weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you
thither. For the vision of one man lends not its
wings to another man. And even as each one of
you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must
each one of you be alone in his knowledge of
God and in his understanding of the earth."
-Kahlil Gibran

"A man can be free without being great,
but no man can be great without being free."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Demonstration of love are small,
compared with the great thing
that is back of them."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Knowledge is life with wings."
-Kahlil Gibran

"What the soul knows
is often unknown to the man who has a soul.
We are infinitely more than we think."
-Kahlil Gibran

"What difference does it make,
whether you live in a big city
or in a community of homes?
The real life is within."
-Kahlil Gibran

"An expression of that sacred desire
to find this world and behold it naked;
and that is the soul of the poetry of Life.
Poets are not merely those who write poetry,
but those whose hearts are full
of the spirit of life."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours;
let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
-Kahlil Gibran