Khalil Gibran Quotes

Always destroy what is in you.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.