Khalil Gibran Wind Quotations

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind....

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver

But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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