Khalil Gibran

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Khalil Gibran

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Khalil Gibran

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Khalil Gibran

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Khalil Gibran

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Khalil Gibran

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Khalil Gibran

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Khalil Gibran

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Khalil Gibran

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Khalil Gibran

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

Khalil Gibran