The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it… — 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
Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married. — 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
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. — 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 Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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 Image
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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 Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
