Khalil Gibran on fear
“Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.”
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran But 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 GibranKhalil Gibran Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Nature 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 GibranKhalil Gibran When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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