Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
From Khalil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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