The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

“Beauty is kind and gentle. “Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us.” And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread. “Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”