He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
Weitere Zitate von Kahlil Gibran
Zum Autor"You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"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."
"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."