Zokhlo

“However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran

“We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.”
― Rawi Hage, Carnival

“But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet