"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." Kahlil Gibran
This book is a categorized collection of profound quotes by Kahlil Gibran, the legendary Lebanese writer whose words have a rare magic of describing emotions in their purest form. Gibran's themes of love and alienation, disruption, and lost rural beauty and security in a modernizing world resonated with the experiences of his readers worldwide. His works have been hugely popular, making him the best-selling American poet of the twentieth century,
"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
Kahlil Gibran