Quotes

“You have your ideology and I have mine.” Khalil Gibran

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.” Khalil Gibran

“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.” Khalil Gibran

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” Khalil Gibran

“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” Khalil Gibran

“What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?” Khalil Gibran

“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.” Khalil Gibran

“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” Khalil Gibran

“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.” Khalil Gibran

“What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?” Khalil Gibran

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.” Khalil Gibran

“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.” Khalil Gibran

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” Khalil Gibran

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.” Khalil Gibran

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.” Khalil Gibran

“You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” Walter Hagen

“Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.” Walter Hagen

“My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?” Walter Hagen

“No one remembers who came in second.” Walter Hagen

“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” Walter Hagen

“There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.” Walter Hagen

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” Augustus Hare

“The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.” Augustus Hare

“What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.” Augustus Hare

“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?” Augustus Hare

“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.” Augustus Hare

“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.” Augustus Hare

“As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.” Augustus Hare

“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.” Augustus Hare

“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.” Augustus Hare