When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.