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Khalil Gibran Quotes That Will Awaken Your Mind And Soothe Your Soul

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. 
Brianna Wiest
September 26, 2016
“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, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
“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 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. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
“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, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“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, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
“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, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
“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, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“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, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
“You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“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, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“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, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“And God said ‘Love Your Enemy,’ and I obeyed him and loved myself.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet