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
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- Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- 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.
- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
- Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.