“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Khalil Gibran Quotes
1883 – 1931
Lebanese-American poet, writer, and visual artist best known for 'The Prophet'. His lyrical meditations on love, sorrow, joy, and freedom have touched millions worldwide.
35 quotesAbout Khalil Gibran on Wikipedia
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
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“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.”
“Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”
“If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
“In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste.”
