Kahlil Gibran quotes

I am going to read out load for some old people tomorrow. I thought the words of Kahlil Gibran would be suitable. Here are some quotes for you as well:

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“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.” 

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” 

“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

“I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.” 

“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” 

“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.” 

“Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self.

“Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.” 

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.” 

“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.” 

“Your children are not your children. You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.