Words of Kahlil Gibran

Some of the verses of Kahlil Gibran that I found absolutely beautiful and inspiring. Here they are...

"My house says to me, 'Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.'
And the road says to me, 'Come and follow me, for I am your future.'
And I say to both my house and the road,
'I have no past, nor have I a future.
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
And if I go there, there is a staying in my going.
Only love and death change all things.' "

"Give me an ear and I will give you a voice... "

"My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues."

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound or a smiling mouth."

"You see but your shadow, when you turn your back on the sun."

"Should we all confess our sins to one another, we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. Should we reveal our virtues, we would also laugh for the same cause."

"If it were not for our conception of weights and measures, we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun."

"The truly great man is he who would master no one and he who would be mastered by none."

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"Behold here is a paradox: the deep and the high are nearer to one another than the mid level to either."