"Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."--Kahlil Gibran
"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."--Kahlil Gibran
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."--Kahlil Gibran
"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master."--Kahlil Gibran
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
--Kahlil Gibran
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
--Kahlil Gibran
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
--Kahlil Gibran
"We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
--Kahlil Gibran
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
--Lao-Tzu
"He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know."
--Lao-Tzu
"He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened."
--Lao-Tzu
"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
--Lao-Tzu
"The best is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao."
--Lao-Tzu
"To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed."
--Lao-Tzu
"To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
--Lao-Tzu
"To lead the people, walk behind them."
--Lao-Tzu