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
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain....… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is… — 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
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but… — 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
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for… — 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
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
