There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
KHALIL GIBRANThere must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
KHALIL GIBRANLove is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
KHALIL GIBRANMuch of your pain is self-chosen.
KHALIL GIBRANAll things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for 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 GIBRANThe strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
KHALIL GIBRANAll men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
KHALIL GIBRANNature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
KHALIL GIBRANA man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
KHALIL GIBRANMarriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
KHALIL GIBRANThe silence of the envious is too noisy.
KHALIL GIBRANFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
KHALIL GIBRANIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
KHALIL GIBRANTruth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
KHALIL GIBRANLove is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
KHALIL GIBRAN