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 Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. – Khalil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. – Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. – Khalil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. – Khalil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Khalil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. – Khalil Gibran
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. – Khalil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. – Khalil Gibran
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. – Khalil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. – Khalil Gibran
