Kahlil Gibran

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

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

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

“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. And When he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden......”

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”