Here are 30 of Khalil Gibran's most famous and best quotes

Here are 30 of Khalil Gibran's most famous and best quotes:

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

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

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

"Work is love made visible."

"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."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

"To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

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

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

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

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

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."

"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."

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

"It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."

"Let us be like two falling stars in the day sky. Let no one know of our sublime beauty as we hold hands with God and burn into a sacred existence that defies - that surpasses - explanation."

"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while