How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising… — 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
God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one… — 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
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
