If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
– Kahlil Gibran
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- if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing – Kahlil Gibran
- Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. – Kahlil Gibran
- And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? – Kahlil Gibran
- I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. – Kahlil Gibran
- Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. – Avijeet Das
- I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free. – Barry Webster
- 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
- Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. – Kahlil Gibran
- In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart was intoxicated. – Jane Bierhorst
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Kahlil Gibran
- Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. – Kahlil Gibran
- Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. – Kahlil Gibran
- Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers. – Kahlil Gibran
- Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Kahlil Gibran
- He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine. – Kahlil Gibran
- Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights. – Kahlil Gibran
- Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. – Kahlil Gibran
- In your winter you deny your spring, – Kahlil Gibran
- You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard. – Kahlil Gibran
- Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret. – Kahlil Gibran
- Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. – Kahlil Gibran
- All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? – Kahlil Gibran
- When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. – Kahlil Gibran
- Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. – Kahlil Gibran
- An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. – Kahlil Gibran
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction. – Kahlil Gibran
- To belittle, you have to be little. – Kahlil Gibran
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. – Kahlil Gibran
- Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse – Kahlil Gibran
- Self is a sea boundless and measureless. – Kahlil Gibran
- you are good when you strive to give of yourself. – Kahlil Gibran
- You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams – Kahlil Gibran
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran
- There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. – Kahlil Gibran
- Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. – Kahlil Gibran
- Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. – Kahlil Gibran
- The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran