Khalil Gibran — Lebanese Poet born on January 06, 1883, died on April 10, 1931

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. Born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire, as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic... (wikipedia)

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.