The Prophet

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Sorrow is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

"Work is love made visible."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

"You cannot say, 'Go there,' without the risk that they go blind."

"Your children are not your children. They come through you but they belong to life itself."

"The vain boasts of your knowledge and the less you know of yourselves the more you discourse upon him; and the blind are they who speak of him most."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

"Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup."

"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore."

"Think you the master feels himself exalted by the service of his servants?"

"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"Your fear is mostly a phantom, more grotesque than reality itself."

"Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral."

"The master's spirit is not in the work of his hands, but in his heart."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"Offense is a mockery of your wisdom."

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

"Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, begin not with his reason but with his habit."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"He alone is great who turned the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving."