Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was an artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the United States.
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.