Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . .… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
