We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — 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
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go… — 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
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves… — 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
