Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own… — 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
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting… — 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
