Timeless wisdom: Some of my favorite quotes (frequently updated)

Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

4. "For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?"

5. "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

Ibn Arabi

1. "Be a mine of knowledge, and you will be given the means to obtain what you do not know."

2. "Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this, you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter."

3. "All things are reflections of the Divine Names of God."

Solitude

1. "The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born." - Nikola Tesla

2. "In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." - Laurence Sterne

3. "Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life." - Paulo Coelho

4. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." - Michel de Montaigne