Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

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

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Only love and death will change all things.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. Khalil Gibran

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.