“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“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. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not fro…”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater than sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater.’ But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“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”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com