Khalil Gibran

“Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.”

“It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.”

“I upravo kada ste stigli do vrha planine, tek tada bi trebalo da počnete uspon.”

“The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”

“You often say; I would give, but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, is but a witness.”

“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it. And you shall see.And you shall hear.”

“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.*People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.”

“And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil.And he answered:You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good.”

“And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.”

“Then said a teacher, speak to us of teaching. And he said:The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.”

“Then a ploughman said, speak to us of work: in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life,And to love life through labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets.And what is it to work with love?It is to weave the cloth with threads from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit .It is to change all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.He who works in marble, and finds the shape of his own soul in the stone, is nobler than he who ploughs the soil.”

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

“The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant Oaks than to the least of all blades of grass, And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving”

“What is fear of need but need itself?”

“All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now that the season of giving is yours and not your inheritors.”

“Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart.”

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when your dream was born”

“The self same well from which your laughs rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.”

“Is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives.”

“Joy and sorrow are inseparable, together they came and where one sits alone with you at the board remember that the other is asleep upon your bed”

“When love beckons to you follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him thought the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams”

“Nežnost i LJubaznost nisu znaci slabosti, već izraz Snage i Odlučnosti.”

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

“The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.”

“Niko ne može da uzdrma kule prošlosti a da umakne kamenju što se obrušava”

“The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”

“I have no enemies...but if I am to have an enemy, Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor.”

“Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.”

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

“I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my foot prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever.”

“Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.”

“Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.”

“Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.”

“You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“And an old priest said, Speak to us of Religion. And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught else? Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom? Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for myself; This for my soul and this other for my body"? All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. He who wears his mortality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. The freest song comes not through bars and wires. And he to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn. Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all. Take the plough and the forge and the mallet and the lute, The things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight. For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures. And take with you all men: For in adoration you cannot fly higher than their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their despair. And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.”

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.And it is well that you should.The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;and the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”

“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.”

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

“If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember”

“Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”

“Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.”

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ”

“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”

“7 ALASAN MENCELA DIRITujuh kali aku pernah mencela jiwaku,Pertama kali ketika aku melihatnya lemahpadahal seharusnya ia bisa kuatKedua kali ketika melihatnya berjalan terjongket-jongket, dihadapan orang yang lumpuhKetiga kali ketika berhadapan dengan pilihan yang sulit dan mudahia memilih yang mudahKeempat kalinya, ketika ia melakukan kesalahan dan coba menghibur diri dengan mengatakan bahwa semua orang juga melakukan kesalahanKelima kali, ia menghindar karena takut, lalu mengatakannya sebagai sabarKeenam kali, ketika ia mengejek kepada seraut wajah burukpadahal ia tahu, bahwa wajah itu adalah salah satu topeng yang sering ia pakaiDan ketujuh, ketika ia menyanyikan lagu pujian dan menganggap itu sebagai suatu yang bermanfaat”

“Bir gün, güzellik ve çirkinlik bir deniz kıyısında karşılaştılar ve dediler, 'haydi denize girelim.' Giysilerini çıkartıp suda yüzdüler. Bir süre sonra, çirkinlik kıyıya dönüp, güzelliğin giysilerine büründü ve yoluna gitti. Güzellik de denizden çıktı, kendi giysilerini bulamadı; ama çıplak olmak utandırıyordu onu, çaresiz çirkinliğin giysilerine büründü ve yoluna devam etti güzellik. O gün bugündür, erkekler ve kadınlar onları birbirine karıştırır. Ancak içlerinden güzelliğin yüzünü önceden görmüş kimileri vardır ki, giysilerine bakmaksızın tanırlar onu. Ve yine çirkinliğin yüzünü bilen kimileri vardır ki, gözlerinden tanırlar çirkinliği.”