Best quotes from The Prophet

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; and you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

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