For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Broken Wings
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
KHALIL GIBRAN, attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, 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, The Prophet
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KHALIL GIBRAN, The Madman: His Parables & Poems
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Kahlil Gibran Reader: Inspirational Writings
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
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.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Madman
Generosity is giving more than you can.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
