He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
Khalil GibranIf it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
Khalil GibranThus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.
Khalil GibranThe best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Khalil GibranYet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
Khalil Gibran