Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. / Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf / Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, / Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

To belittle, you have to be little.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.