Khalil Gibran Body Quotations

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

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

Your body is the harp of the soul.

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Your house is your larger body.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

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.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.