The Prophet
inconstancy.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
wayfarers
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
chastisement.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil Gibran • The Prophet
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.