Author of quotes: Gibran Kahlil Gibran. Page 3

Your children - not children to you.
They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.
They came from you, but do not belong to you.
You can give them your words but not your thoughts for they have their own thoughts.
You can learn from them, but not to teach them, for their souls dwell in the valley of Tomorrow where you cannot visit even in your dreams...

Beauty is not in face beauty is light in heart.

Only love and death change everything.

To reach dawn can only be the trail of the night.

You have a free day, under the sun, and you're free at night, under
stars;
You are free when there is neither sun, nor moon, nor stars.
You're free even when I close my eyes to everything.
But you are a slave loved you, because you love him.
And you are a slave of loving you because he loves you.

When you comprehend all the mysteries of life, you will seek death, because it is nothing like another mystery of life.

It is surprising that we defend our wrongs with much more fervor than we are right.

Generosity consists not in the fact that you gave me something I need more of you, but you gave me something without which he can not do.

Only an immense sadness or joy is able to reveal your true essence.

Many women are able to control a man's heart, but few of them can manage.

Oblivion is a kind of freedom.

We often sing lullabies to their children to go to sleep themselves.

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it is then that the other half finds you well.

A person's importance is determined not by what he has achieved, but rather the fact that he dares to achieve.