Much of your pain is self-chosen.
KHALIL GIBRANMuch of your pain is self-chosen.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANMarriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
KHALIL GIBRANI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
KHALIL GIBRANAll can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
KHALIL GIBRANKeep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
KHALIL GIBRANIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
KHALIL GIBRANA man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
KHALIL GIBRANThe Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
KHALIL GIBRANBut let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
KHALIL GIBRANIf you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
KHALIL GIBRANListen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
KHALIL GIBRANTo understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
KHALIL GIBRANThe silence of the envious is too noisy.
KHALIL GIBRANOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
KHALIL GIBRAN