Khalil Gibran

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Khalil Gibran

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Khalil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Khalil Gibran

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

Khalil Gibran

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

Khalil Gibran

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Khalil Gibran

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Khalil Gibran

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Khalil Gibran

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

Khalil Gibran