If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont