Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Khalil GibranHe who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
Khalil GibranWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil GibranWho can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache. It is not a garment I cast off this day, bit a skin that I tear with my own hands... Yet I cannot tarry longer.
Khalil Gibran