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
Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and… — 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
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay. — 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
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart… — 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
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
Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each… — 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
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And… — 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
