#elf

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #children #daughters #itself #life

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#eternity #gazing #itself #mirror

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

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

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#little #possessions #truly #you #your

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#anyone #as far as #continue #depended #far

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#american #australian #because #both #countries

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#assuring #fears #had #heal #heart

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#happy #how #look #love you #much

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

#done #exists #faithful #indispensable #make