If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that… — 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
She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and… — 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
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to… — 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
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — 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
