Khalil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forever more.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.