Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through… — 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
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation.… — 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
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — 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
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls… — 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
The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — 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
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit… — 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
