How shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater
than their misdeeds?
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Crime and Punishment |
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of
the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Laws |
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and
the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the
heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Friendship |
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, on Beauty |
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea
are one.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Death |
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to
melt into the sun?
And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from
its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God
unencumbered?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed
sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then shall
you begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
then shall you truly dance.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, On Death |
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns
to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the
parent to a curse.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, The Farewell |