When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.