Khalil Gibran

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Khalil Gibran

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Khalil Gibran

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

Khalil Gibran

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Khalil Gibran

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Khalil Gibran

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Khalil Gibran

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

Khalil Gibran

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

Khalil Gibran

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

Khalil Gibran