Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him… — 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
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul… — 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
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters.… — 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
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know.... — 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