Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Gibran Khalil Gibran, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.

Quotes

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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.
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Love
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Miscellaneous
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Wisdom
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Money
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Music
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love
No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Friendship, Love
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.

Time
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.

Miscellaneous
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.

Virtue