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
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
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — 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
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. — 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
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his… — 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
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is… — 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
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
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. — 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
