Kahlil Gibran

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

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.