Khalil Gibran

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And i...”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not their fruit. It is a depth calling unto a height, But it is not the deep no...”

“I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my foot prints, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain fo...”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand a...”

“Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.”

“Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.”

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

“[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.”

“No olvidéis que el pudor no es protección contra los ojos del impuro. Y cuando el impuro ya no exista, ¿qué será el pudor sino los grillos y la impureza de la mente?.”

“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

“Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”

“[I]st nicht die Zeit wie die Liebe, ungeteilt und ungezügelt?”

“Schönheit ist Ewigkeit, die sich in einem Spiegel anschaut. - Aber ihr seid die Ewigkeit, und ihr seid der Spiegel.”

“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.”

“Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.”

“Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.”

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