90 quotes
Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars."
on Life
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
on Learning
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
on Philosophy
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
on Love
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
on Dreams
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
on Death
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
on Truth
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
on Parenting
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
on Wisdom
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
on Perseverance
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
on Faith
