The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
KHALIL GIBRANThe mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRANOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
KHALIL GIBRANThe truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
KHALIL GIBRANOur worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
KHALIL GIBRANWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANYou cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
KHALIL GIBRANYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
KHALIL GIBRANIn one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
KHALIL GIBRANThe nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANOne day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
KHALIL GIBRANThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANBe like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRAN