“You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries… — 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
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
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,… — 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
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . .… — 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
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of… — 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
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near;… — 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
